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TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. 



The Author may be allowed to say, that in brmging out 
the seventh edition of his " Information for Everybody," 
that over nine thousand copies have been sold in the three 
years which it has been before the public. Satisfaction has 
been guaranteed^ and with a single exception, no one, to the 
author's knowledge, has ever regretted the purchase ; and 
that exception not from fault in the recipes, but the pur- 
chaser found the information sought was similar to that 
with which he was already acquainted. If the recipes do 
not make good articles that will give general satisfaction, tk 
money shall he refunded. 

The author is a graduate of the " Eclectic Medical In- 
i^titute of Cincinnati, 0." He has also had many years' ex- 
perience in the Grocery and Drug business, where he han 
i'onstantly made and sold many of the articles, as also used 
them in his own family ; and would not abandon their use 
for any sum that could be named. Whilst some of them 
have been obtained of our most scientific and practical men 
of the different cities and towns through which he has trav- 
elled for about three years selling the work, which would 
and has drawn out from these men many very valuable items 
of information, no money or pains have been spared in get- 
ting hold of recipes which were known to be valuable, and 
would add to the advantages of the purchasers of this work. 
Very great confidence may be placed in these recipes as the 
author's reasons for publication will plainly show. 

1. Many of the recipes are original and have not been 
before published. 

2. Most of the recipe books contain useless matter, and 
are unreliable. 

3. Many of them direct to adulterate with lase drugs 



U PREFACE. 

nearly all of the articles whicli they give directions fot mur 
king, which should be alJiorred by over-' mauufacturer whc 
claims to be called a humane being. 

4. To prevent unprincipled persons from ,<:;uirmg the peo- 
ple by obtainirig more for a single recipe tl-.m a hundred is 
worth. ,Slr.gle recipes in this book havo sold to the au- 
ihor's knowledge from 25 cents to $125. A gentleman of 
Greenfield, Ohio, was about to pay to a Cincinnati mann- 
facturer $C0 for the vinegar recipe, which he obtained m 
my book for $1, only with the difierence, however, that ho 
would there have learned to adulterate it with sulphiirie 
acid which will never be learned from me, 

AiMioiiiili the mul.oi- li.is dL'.-nly pniJ 
Fur jill II •• iiirk.N ui-d sli;iu).^ ot irado. 

6. That all v/ho wish to ma,nufacture or use good article* 
can have the injonnation within their reach for a reasonable 
price. 

6. The only certainty the retailer has of the purity of 
the articles sold by him is to make all such himself as ad- 
mit the possibility of such manufacture. 

7. For the benefit of myself and family, that they, and 
the world, may be the better for the author's passage 
through it. 

And hsthj, if these do not appear to any one, en trial, to 
be the honest reasons, without Jmnilic(/, which is in every 
body's mouth now-a-days, and that Justl>/ also, then will I 
myself acknowledge that it is not only a humbug but the 
GREATEST of the day. 

But no fears need be held on that point, as assurances 
have been given by hundreds of persons who are using the 
recipes, a few of which will be given in some part of the 
work, that they give general satisfaction ; and where there 
has been objectionable points in former editions, great pains 
have been taken to revise and correct them in this edition 
of the work. 

A few recipes for cooking are put into this edition, but 
they are only such as are known to make ver>/ choice arti- 
cles at a moderate expense only, as the luclacheat shori-eake^ 
which is equally good in summer as winter, and lemcn pit, 
I have never tasted aih or pw equal to them for m€. 



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Prom tte frequent enquiries for coloring recipes, the au- 
tbor althou'rh having no personal knowledge of the matter, 
has been tolhe expense of getting them from_ practical dy- 
ers who were competent to give such information. 

Some will say, however, there is too much for the money, 
or for one man to know ; and others will say it is too little 
for the price ; but all may feel assured of the practicability 
of the information, and that full and plain directions are 
given, and that the materials can be easily obtained of the 
druggists and merchants throughout the country where any 
thin'g like assortments are to be found. And any one desi- 
ring information on any point not mentioned in the book, 
as, "the treatment of Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Uterine Hemorr- 
iiages, and all general Female complaints, Chronic diseasa 
of all descriptions, &c. &c. will receive prompt answer, and 
conditions upon which it can be obtained of the euthor, 
whose address and residence is permanent as given below. 

A. W. CHASE, M. D. 

Ann Arbor^ Michigan, 



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FOR MAKING THE VARIOUS BEERS, WINES, 
CIDERS, SODA SYRUPS, &c. &o. 



Ariificial Cider, or Cider without Apples. — To each 
gallon of cold water, put 1 lb. dark brown sugar, 1-2 oz. tar- 
taric acid, 3 table-spoonfuls of yeast, shake well, make in 
the evening, and it wi-U be fiifor use next day. I make 'in 
a keg a few gallons at a time, l^av^^^few quarts to niake^vj;; 
into next time — not using yeast again ui^ti?l i^& keg>p^e'eds ^A 
rinsing. If it gets a little sour make more into it-^'DrfeW in '^ 
a pitcher with ice in it ; or if your sales are slow, bottle it 
and keep in a cool cellar. If it is desired to bottle this 
cider by manufacturers of small drinks, you will proceed 
a,s follows : Put in a barrel 5 gallons of hot water, 30 lbs. 
brown Fugar, 3-4: lb. tartaric acid, 25 gallons cold water, 3 
pints of hop or brewer's yeast, worked into a paste with 3-4 
lb. flour, and 1 pint of water will be required in making this 
paste, put all together in a barrel, which it will fill, and let 
it work 24 hours — the yeast running out at the bung all the 
time, by putting in a little at a time to keep it full. Then 
bottle, putting in 2 or 3 broken raisins to each bottle, and 
it will nearly equal Champagne. Let the bottles lay in a 
cool place on the side. This cider is sometimes made as 
follows : For 20 gallons of water put 15 lbs. of brown su- 
gar and 1-2 lb. tartaric acid and no yeast, as this will keep 
for any length of time in kegs or barrels. If made in this 
way I would boil 2 lbs. of dried apples and add the juice to 
this amount of cider. The darker the sugar, the more nat- 
ural will be the color of the cider. Dr. 0. 13. Reed, with 
whom I read medicine, drank of this cider freely while 



BEERS; WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQU0R8. O 

eick with billious fever, knowing its composition, and re- 
commended it to Lis patients as soon as he got out amongst 
them again, as a drink that would allay thirst, with the 
least amount of fluid, of any thing of which he was ac- 
quainted. 

But I prefer Professor Hufeland's drink for fever pa- 
tients, as follows: — Boil 1-2 an oz. of Cream-cf- Tartar in 3 
quarts of water until all is dissolved — after taking it from 
the fire add a sliced orange with from 1 1-2 to 3 oz. of white 
sugar, according to the desire of the patient, bottle and keep 
cool, and use for a common drink in fevers of all grades. 

Spruce or Aromatic Beer. — Take 3 gal. water, 1 quart 
and 1-2 pint molasses, 3 eggs well beat, 1 gill yeast ; into 2 
quarts of the water boiling hot, put 50 drops of any oil you 
wish the flavor of; or mix 1 oz. each, oils Sasafras, Spruce 
and Wintergreen, then use 50 drops. For Ginger flavor, 
take 2 oz. Ginger root bruised, and a few hops, and boil for 
'JO minutes in 1 gal, of the water ; strain and mix all. Let 
it stand 2 houts and bottle, using yeast of course as before, 
bearing in mind that yeast must nev^r be scalded. 

Lemon Beer. — To make 30 gallons^ boil G oz. of Ginger 
root bruised, 1-4 lb. Cream-of-tartar for 20 or 30 minutes in 
2 or 3 gals, of the water. This will be strained into 13 lbs. 
of coffee sugar, on which you have put 1 oz. oil lemon, or 1-2 
oz. oil lemon and G good lemons all squeezed up together, 
having warm water enough to make the whole 20 gallons 
just so you can hold your hand in it without burning, or 
about 70 deg. of heat, put in 1 1-2 pints of hop or brewer's 
yeast worked into paste, as for the cider, with 5 or 6 oz. of 
flour. Let it work over night, then strain and bottle for 
use. This will keep 15 to 20 days. 

Philadelphia Beer. — Take 30 gallons of water ; brown 
:sugar 20 lbs; ginger root bruised 1 1-4 lbs; cream-of-tartar 1-4 
lb.; bi-carbonate of soda 8 oz.; 1 tea-spoonful of oil of lemon 
cut in a little alcohol ; whites of 10 eggs well beat ; hops 
2 oz.; yeast 1 quart. The ginger root and hops should be 
boiled 20 or 30 minutes in enough of the water to make all 
milk warm, then strain into the rest and the yeast added 
2,nd allowed to work itself clear as the cider and bottled. 



6 * BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 

Patent Gas Beer. — Take 2 oz. ground ginger ; 1 oz. all 
spice; 1-2 oz. cinnamon; 1-4 oz. cloves; all bruised or ground, 
boil a few minutes in 2 quarts of molasses, strain into your 
keg and add 7 1-2 gals, cold water and 1 pt of. good yeast, 
shake it well together and bung down, make over night and 
it will be ready for use next day. There ought to be a 
little space in the keg not filled with the beer This beer 
is ahead of all the pops and mineral waters of the day, for 
flavor, health, or sparkling qualities, or speed in making. 
Be careful you do not burst the keg. 

This recipe I obtained by drinking a glass of the beer and 
eating a cake or two loiteriugly in the grocery of Mr. More 
at Zanesville, Ohio, as the clerk was weighing out the arti- 
cles and making the beer one 4th of July, whilst my neigh- 
bor paid $10 ^o the same man for the recipe; and I have 
made it every da}' for months, witli RockwelTs circus, and 
the man v/ho kept the inside stand paid me %'l for the re- 
cipe, and blowed out the head of the first keg he made, a* 
he carried it 17 miles in his waggon without lotting off any 
gas from the keg. Of course he did not mvAie his money 
out of the first keg, but he did make it out of it many times, 
and so can any one in the business. I have >old a barrel of 
it in one day, and 8 gallons of strong beer also, on the show 
ground. I prefer it to any other small beer. Keep ice in' 
the pitcher into which you draw it. 

Imperial Cream Nectar. — Part first. Take 1 gaP.on of 
water, 8 lbs. loaf sugar, 8 oz. tartaric acid, gum arable, 1 oz. 
— Part second. 4 tea-spoonfuls of floiiir, the whites of 4 
eggs, beat the flour and eggs finely together, then add half 
pint water, when the first is blood warm put in the second, 
boil ^ minutes and it is done. Directions : 3 table-spoon- 
fuls of the syrup to a glass half or two-thirds full of water, 
and add one-third tea-spoonful of super-carbonate of soda 
made fine ; stir well and drink at your leisure. 

|^^"In getting up any of the soda drinks which are spo- 
ken of, it will be found preferable to put about 8 oz. of car- 
bonate, sometimes called super-carbonate of soda into one 
pint of water in a bottle and shake when you wish to make- 
a glass of soda and pour of this into the glass until it foama 
well, instead of using the dry soda as directed. 



BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS, 7 

Ginger Fop. — Take 5 1-2 gala, water, 1-4 lb. ginger root 
bruised, one-half oz. tartaric acid, two and a half lbs. white 
sugar, whites of 3 eggs \veU beat, 1 small tea-spoonful of 
lemon oil, 1 gill jeast; boil the root for thirty minutes in 1 
gallon of the water, strain off, and put the oil in while hot^ 
mix. Make over night ; in the morning skim and bottle, 
keeping out sediments. 

Spanish Gingereite. — To each gal. of water, put 1 lb. 
white sugar, 1-2 oz. best bruised ginger root, 1-4 oz. cream- 
tartar and 2 lemons sliced. Directions : In making 5 gals, 
boil the ginger and lemons ten minutes in two gals, of the 
water, the sugar and cream tartar to be dissolved in the cold 
water, and mix all, and add one-half pint of good yeast ; let 
it ferment over night, strain and bottle in the morning. 
This is a valuable recipe for a cooling and refreshing beve- 
rage, compounded of ingredients highly calculated to assist 
the stomach, and is recommeuded to persons suffering with 
dyspepsia or sick head ache. It is much used in European 
countries, and persons having once tested its virtues, will 
constantly use it as a common drink. And for saloons or 
groceries no temperance beverage will set it aside. 

Yeast. — Take a good single handful of hops and boil for 
20 minutes in 3 pints oi water, strain, stir in a tea-eup of 
flour, a table-spoonful of sugar and a tea-spoonful of salt; 
when a little cool put in 1 gill 'of brewer's or baker's yeast ; 
and after 4 or 5 hours cover up and stand in a cool place 
for use ; make again from this unless you let it get sour. 

Soda Syrups. — Loaf or crushed sugar 8 lbs. ; pure water 
one gal. ; gum arable two oz. ; mix in a brass or copper 
kettle ; boil until the gum is dissolved, then skim and strain 
through white flannel, after which add tartaric acid 5 1-2 
oz. dissolved in hot water ; to flavor, use extract of lemon, 
orange, rose, pine -apple, peach, sarsaparilla, strawberry, &c. 
one-half oz. to each bottle, or to your taste. If you use the 
juice of lemon and 1 1-2 lbs. of sugar to a pint, you do not 
need any tartaric acid with it ; now use 2 or 3 table-spoon- 
fals of syrup, to 3-4 of a tumbler of water and 1-2 tea- 
spoonful of super carbonate of soda made fine ; stir well 
and be ready to drink, or use the soda in water as mention- 



5 BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 

ed in the Imperial Cream Nectar ; the gum arabic, howev- 
er, holds the carbonic acid so it will not fly off as rapid a? 
common soda. For soda fountains 1 oz. of super carbonate 
of soda is used to 1 gal. of water. For charged fountains 
no acids are needed in the syrups. 

Improded JEnglish Strong Beer. — If you have malt use it, 
if not take 1 peck of barley, (oats will do, but not so good) 
and put into an oven after the bread is drawn, or into a 
stove oven and steam the moisture from them. Grind 
coarsely (not fine,) and pour into them 3 1-2 gals, water at 
170 or 72 degrees. (If yo\x use malt it does not need quite 
so much water as it does not absorb so much as the other. 
The tub should have a false bottom with many gimlet holes 
to keep back the grain.) >Stir them well and let stand 3 
hours and draw off, put in 7 gals, more water at 180 to 82 
degs. ; stir well and let stand 2 hours and draw off. Then 
put on a gal. or two of cold water, stir well and draw off; 
you should have about 5 or 6 gals. Mix 6 lbs. coarse brown 
sugar in equal amount of water ; mix with the wort, and 
boil 1 1-2 to 2 hours with 4 oz. good hops in it ; you should 
have 8 gals, when boiled ; when cooled to 80 degs. put in a 
tea-cupful of good yeast and let it work 18 or 20 hours co- 
vered with a sack ; use sound iron hooped kegs or porter 
bottles, bung or cork tight and in two weeks it will be good 
sound beer, nearly equal iu strength to London Porter or 
good ale, and will keep a long time ; and for persons of a 
weak habit of body and especially females, 1 glass of thiiS 
with their meals is far better than tea or coffee, or all the 
ardent spirits in the universe. If more malt is used not 
exceeding 1-2 a bushel, the beer of course would have more 
spirit, but this strength is sufficient for the use of families 
or invalids. 

Ginger JFine. — Take 1 quart 95 per cent alcohol, and put 
into it 1 oz. of best ginger root, (bruised not ground,) 5 grs. 
of capsicum and 1 dr. of tartaric acid. Let stand 1 week, 
shaking occasionally, then settle and draw off", or strain or 
iilter. Now add 1 gal water, in which 1 lb. of crushed su- 
gar has been boiled. Mix when cold. To make the color, 
boil 1-2 oz. of cochineal. 3-4 oz. cream-of-tartar, 1-2 oz. 



BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 9 

»aleratus, and 1-2 oz. alum in a pint of water until you get 
a bright red color; and use a proper amount of this to 
bring the wine to the desired color. This wine is suitable 
for nearly all the purposes for which any wine is used, and 
a gallon of it will not cost more than a pint of many wines 
sold throughout the country for medicinal uses, represented 
to be imported from Europe. Let a man, suffering with a 
bad cold, drink about half a pint of this wine hot, on going 
to bed, soaking his feet at the same time in hot water 15 or 
20 minutes and covering up warm and sweating it out till 
morning, then washing off' his whole body with cool or cold 
water, by means of a wet towel, and rubbing briskly with 
a coarse dry towel for 4 or 5 minutes will not be able to 
find his cold or any bad effects of it in one case out of a 
hundred. Ladies or children would take less, in proportion 
to age and strength. Females in a weakly condition, with 
litle or no appetite and spare in flesh, from food not proper- 
ly digesting, hut not yet ripened into actual indigestion will 
find almost entire relief by taking about half a wine glass of 
this wine 20 minutes before meals and following it up a 
month or two according to their improved condition. For 
family use it is just as good not to use the coloring in this 
wine at all. 

Ice Cream. — Have rich sweet cream, and 1-4 lb. loaf su- 
gar to everj^ quart of cream or milk ; if you cannot get 
cream, the best imitation is to boil a soft custard ; 6 eggs to 
every quart of milk, (eggs to be vv'ell beat ;) or anotlier is 
made as follows : boil a quart of milk and stir into it while 
boiling a table-spoonful of arrow root wet with cold milk ; 
when cool stir in the yolk of one egg to give a rich color. 
Five minutes boiling is enough for either plan. Put the 
sugar in after they cool ; keep the same proportions for any 
amount desired. The juice of strawberries or raspberries 
give a beautiful color and flavor to ice creams ; or about a 
i-2 oz. of essence or extracts to a gallon, or to suit the taste. 
Have your ice well broken ; 1 qt. salt to a bucket of ice. 
About one half hour's constant stirring and occasional scra- 
ping down and beating together will freeze it ; and the less 
a person eats of it, for their health, the better. 



10 BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, ANB LIQUORS. 

Ice Cream very clieap. — For 6 qts. of milk, you will add 
1-2 lb. of Oswego corn starch. First dissolve the starch in 
one qt. of the milk, then mix all together and just simmer 
a little, (not to boil.) Sweeten and flavor to suit your taste, 
or as above. Or soak Irish moss in water for an hour, and 
rinse well to clear it of sand and a certain peculiar taste ; 
then steep it for an hour in milk just at the boiling point 
but not to boil, it imparts a rich color and flavor without 
eggs or cream. Use from an oz. to one and a half oz. to 
the ga,llon. This may be steeped twice. It is the Chicago 
plan. 

Cream Soda. — Loaf sugar, 10 lbs., water 3 gills, warm 
gradually so as not to burn ; good rich cream, 2 qts. ; ex- 
tract of vanilla 1 l-'2 oz., and extract nutmeg 1-2 oz., tarta- 
ric acid 4 oz. Just bring to a boiling heat, for if you cook 
it any length of time it will crystallize ; use 4 or 6 spoon- 
fuls of this syrup instead of three as in other syrups, put 
1-S tea-spoonful of soda to a glass, if used without a foun- 
tain. For charged fountains no acids are used. 

Lemon S^jrup to save loss of Lemons. — AVhcro you have 
lemons that are spoiling or drying up, take the iijsides which 
are yet souud, S(|ueeze out the juice, and to each pint put 
1 1-2 lbs. white sugar, and a little of the peel, boil a few 
minutes, strain and cork for use. This will not require any 
acid, and 1-2 tea-spoonful of soda to 3-4 of a glass of water 
with 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls of syrup. If water is added the 
syrup will not keep as well, and takes more of it. 

Lure Wine, — Take 3 lbs. nice raisins, free of stems, cut 
each one in 2 pieces', put them into a stone jug with 1 gal. 
pure soft water, let them stand two weeks uncorked, sha- 
king occasionally, (warm place in winter;) strain through 3 
or 4 thicknesses of woollen or filter, color with burned su- 
gar, bottle and cork well for use. The more raisins that 
are used the better will be the wine, not exceeding 5 lbs. 

This is from the Eclectic Dispensatory and I have made 
it and used it in prescriptions ; but I prefer the following 
plan, if one can take the time necessary to let it work pro- 
perly, which of course any one can do and especially where 
ii is to be used in medicine or for sacramental purposes, for 



BBERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 11 

which it is perfectly appropriate : — to eaca lb. of nice box 
raisiDS, finely chopped, pour on 1 qt. of boiling soft water, 
iLsing jars to stand them in, cover closely to keep in the 
steam, let stand until cold, or 24 hours, then strain off, 
squeezing out all the juice and add 1 lb. of white sugar for 
every lb. of raisins used, then put in a jug or jues and let 
stand two months before usin^, color to suit with the wine 
coloring.. 



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Pure Wine Vinegar — Is made b}' putting the same quan- 
tity of water on the above raisins (after the wine is poured 
off) as at first, and standing the same length of time in the 
same way. 

Graj)e Wine. — Take 20 lbs. of ripe freslily picked and se- 
lected tame grapes, put them into a stone jar and pour over 
them 6 quarts of boiling soft water, when sufficiently cool 
to allow it, you will squeeze them all thoroughly with the 
hand ; after which allow them to stand 3 days on the pom- 
ace with a cloth thrown over the jar, then strain and add 
10 lbs. of nice crushed sugar and let it remain a week long- 
er in the jar ; then tak-.- off the scum, strain again and bot- 
tle, leaving a vent until done fermenting, when, strain again 
and bottle tight and lay the bottles on the side in a cool 
place. 

This wine is the same as used by Kev. Orrin TVhitmore 
of Saline, Mich, for sacramental purposes. I have tasted 
it myself and would prefer it for medicinal uses to nine- 
tenths of the wine sold in this country. With age it is nice. 

These wines are every way appropriate for sacramental 
or medicinal purposes and far more pure than can be pur- 
chased once in a hundred times, and if one makes their own 
they have the satisfaction of knowing that their wines are 
not made of what is vulgarly yet truly called rot gut whiskey. 

Coloring for Wines and Liquors.— Take any amount of 
white sugar desired, put into an iron kettle, moi.sten a little, 
let boil and come to a red black and thick ; remove from 
the fire and add a little hot water to keep it from hardening 
as it cools ; bottle for use, and color your wines with thia 
to any desired tint you wish. 



12 BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 

Port Wine.. — Take 42 gals, of worked cider, 12 gals, good 
Port wine, 3 gals, good brandy, 6 gals, pure spirits ; color 
with burned sugar, as you like. This is more particularly 
applicable to medicinal purposes. This wine is the pre- 
scription of Prof. Douglass, of the University of Michigan, 
in his lectures to the medical class of which I was a mem- 
ber in '56-7, to be used by us as physicians in our prescrip- 
tions in preference to the stuff usually sold, representing to 
be an imported article. But I say from the difficulty of getting 
good wine or brandy leave them out entirely, as also the 
pure spirit mentioned, and use instead of them for the 42 
gals, of pure cider free of pomace 4 1-2 to 5 gals, of best 
.alcohol and 10 lbs. of the best cut raisins with 1-4 lb. cin- 
namon bark and allspice each, and 1 oz. each of cloves and 
nutmegs ground, let stand 2 weeks shaking occasionally, then 
■rack off to be free of the raisins and sediment, and you will 
have a wine as strengthening and invigorating, and much 
more so, than any wine you can buy, and for one fourth the 
cost. 

Curra?it and other Fruit Wines. — For Currant, Cherry, 
Raspberry, Elderberry, Strawberry, either one can be used 
4ilone, or a combination of several of the different kinds, to 
make a variety of flavors or suit persons who have some and 
not the other kinds of fruits. To ever}^ gallon of expressed 
juice obtained, take an equal amount of boiling water f^nd 
pour on the pressed fruit, let stand 12 hours, squeeze out 
as much as there is of juice and mix, then add 4 lbs. brown 
sugar to each gallon ; let stand until worked, using also 1-2 
oz. of cream-of-tartar to each gallon. After fermentation, 
take 4 oz. isinglass dissolved in a pint of the vrine and put 
to each barrel will fine and clear it by settling every impu- 
rity, when it must be drawn off into clean casks, or bottled, 
which is far the best. Give these wines age and you will 
be forced to hide them if you do not want them drank. If 
bottled, let the bottles lie on the side. 

Bimier Wi?ie, or English Patent Wine from the stalk of 
garden Rheiibarh^ will not had to Intemperance. — An agreea- 
ble and healthful wine is made from the expressed juice of 
the garden Rheubarb. To each gal. of juice add 1 gal. 



BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. I^ 



of soft water in wliich 7 lbs, brown sugar has been dissolv- 
ed ; fill a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving the 
bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it 
works off until clear ; then Ixing do^vn or bottle as you de- 
sire. These stalks will furnish a/bout 3-4 their weight in 
juice. Fine and settle with isinglass as in the fruit wines. 
Or for every 4 lbs, of the stalks cut fine, pour on 1 gal. of 
boiling water, adding 4 lbs. of brown sugar, let stand cov- 
ered tight 24 hours, having also added a little cinnamon,, 
allspice, cloves and nutmegs, bruised, as may be desired for 
flavoring,, then strain and let it work a few days or weeks,, 
then settle with isinglass as above. Bottle or bung tight, 
and the longer kept the better it will be for medicine or 
drink. Where wine or any drink is bottled, always lay 
them on the side. This has been patented in England.. 

*■' Blackberry Wine, — There is no wine equal to the black- 
berry wine when properly made, either in flavor or for me- 
dicinal purposes, and all persons who can conveniently do 
, so, should manufacture enough for their own use every year, 
^as it is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is bet- 
, tor for bowel disease. I therefore give tlie recipe of ma- 

* king it, and having tried it myself I speak advisedly on the 
^ subject : measure your berries and bruise them : to every 
:^ gallon adding 1 qt. of boiling water, let the mixture stand 
' 24 hours, stirring occasionally ; then strain all the liquor 
' into a cask, to every gallon adding 2 lbs. of sugar ; cork 
\ tightj and let it stand until the following October, and you 
J will have wine fit for use, without further straining or boil- 
ing, that will make lips smack as they never smacked under 
its influence before." This recipe I insert upon the autho- 

' rity of G. W; Starbuck, of the Cincinnati Dollar Weeldij 

* Times^ not having had an opportunity to try it myself, but 
' from my own knowledge of the fruit and the directions giv- 

* en in the recipe, I feel assured that where this fruit is plen- 
'■ ty, that this wine should take the place of all other wines, 

* unless a person raises the -grapes and understands the man- 
' ufacturing of wines himself, or has an assistant who does, 
^ which by the way, are very scarce. I think 1-2 pt. of al- 
cohol to each gallon will make a better thing for medicine 
of'drink. 



14 'BEERB, WINBS, CIDEHS, AND LIQUORS. 

Stomach Bitters eqital to IIostett^r''s for one-fourfh its, Coe.L 
Take gentian root, 1 1-2 oz. ; orange peel 2 1-2 oz. ; cinna- 
mon, 1-4 oz. ; anise seed, 1-2 oz. ; coriander seed, 1-2 oz. ; 
cardamon seed, 1-8 oz. ; unground Peruvian bark, 1-2 oz* ; 
bruise all these articles and put them with 1-4 oz. gum kino 
into 1 qt. of alcohol of at least 76 per cent, proof, let stand 
2 weeks shaking occasionally, then pour oiF the clear tinc- 
ture, and put into it 1 lb. of loaf sugar and' 4 qts. water, or 
you can add these and let it stand on the dregs if preferred. 

When it is deemed necessary for a persun who is de- 
bilitated to take a strengthening cordial for the stomach, 
nothing of the kind will be found to work so kindly and ef- 
fectually to restore the tone of the general system as this 
preparation. 

1^056' — From a table-spoonful to a wine glass, according 
to the strength and age of the patient, to be taken 15 or 20 
minutes before meals. 

Fortabh Lemonade. — Tcike loaf sugar 1 lb. rub it down 
finely in a mortar, and add : citric aci-d 1-2 oz. (tartaric acid 
will do,) and lemon essence 1-2 oz., and continue the tritu- 
ration until all is intimately mixed, and bottle for use ; a 
rounding table-spoonful can be done up in a paper and car- 
ried conveniently in the pocket while persons are going into 
cut-of-the-way places, and added to half pint of water when 
sll the beauties of a lemonade will stand before you waiting 
to be drank, not costing a penny a glass. This can be made 
sweeter or more sour if desired. If any however should 
prefer an effervescing <lrink they can follow the directions 
given in the next recipe. 

Persian Sherbet. — Take pulverized sugar, 1 lb., super-car- 
bonate of soda, 4 oz., tartaric acid, 3 oz. ; put all the arti- 
cles into the stove oven when moderately warm, being sep- 
arately, upon paper or plates, let them remain sufficiently 
long to dry out all dampness absorbed from the air, then 
rub about 40 drops of lemon oil, (or if preferred a.ny other 
flavored oil,) thoroughly v/ith the sugar in a mortar, wedge- 
wood is the best, then add the soda and acid, and continue 
the rubbing until all are thoroughly mixed. Bottle and 
eork tight for if any degree of moisture is permitted to reach 
it, the acid and eoda neutralize each other and the virtue i» 



JBBBM, WINES, GIBERS, AND LIQUORS. 15 

thus destroyed. A raiddllDg sized table-spoonful or two 
tea-spoonfuls of this put into a 1-2 pt. glass and nearly filled 
with water and quickly drank, makes an agreeable summer 
beverage ; and if 3 or 4 glasses of it are taken within a short 
time, say an hour or two, it has the efiect of a gentle ca- 
thartic, hence for those habitually cosfive it would be found 
nearly or quite equal to the scidiitz powder, and for children 
would be the pleasantest of the two. 

[The printers have tried it, and can bear testimony to its 
good qualities.] 

To keep Apple Cidor sweet vjithout expense. — When jour 
cider has worked so as to have lot the pomace siftk, or just 
to suit jour tas(e, rack it oif and rinse the barrel, (unless 
you have plenty of barrels.) and return 3 gals, of the cider 
into the barrel. Now take a strip of cotton cloth 2 by f* 
inches, whicii !ias been dipped in melted sulpliurand dried. 
fire one end of tliis strip and introduce it into the bung-hole, 
and hold it by means of tiie bung, giving it air sutficient to 
let it burn, keeping the smoke in a.s it burns, when you v,-iU 
push the bung in tight and shake the barrel uittit the sul- 
phur gas id absorbed into the cider; then return the cider 
to the barrel free from sediment, shako all together, and it 
is complete for any length of time, so says Gideon nowelJ, 
of Orramel, N. Y., who says he has drank it 2 years after 
it was put up, just as nice as when first made. 1 know that 
with 1-4 lb. of mustard seed, and one gill of sweet oil to 
each barrel, (the oil forms a coat over the top and keeps out 
the air,) after rectifying, and kept in a cool cellar, that it ie 
safe; but if any one desires to try it without mustard, or 
oannot get it, they have a good prospect of success v,'itb- 
out that expei;se, the first not costing 1-4 of a cent per bar- 
rel. And I know that in some parts of England, by usinjg^ 
only ripe sound apples to make cider from, letting it work 
clear, racking off about twice, bottling, &c. &c., cider \^ 
kept from 20 to 30 years. When cider is drawn off and 
bottled, it should not be corked until the next day after fill 
ing the bottles, or many of them will burst. I am assured 
by a genth'man of l^ucyrus, Ohio, who has tried it, that io 
take cider directly from the press, place it in barrels 8tan4- 
ing OD the end with the head out, put 3 pts. of hickory 



16 BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 

mixed in 1 pt. of milk, to each barrel, will cause all the 
pomace to rise and form a hard crust on the top, and when 
done sparkling as you draw a glass from a faucet below, that 
jou can draw it off and filter through inch layers of cotton 
batting and fine charcoal placed in a keg to half fill it only, 
then barreled and bcittled, that it will make a splendid cham- 
pagne cider, and fit for making wines &c. without further 
trouble or expense. And I am satisfied that it will perform 
as spoken of, and shall try it, no preventing providence, this 
fall, as I think providence would not provide such things for 
us only for our use, and if used 2JyoperI>/ and not abused, no 
liarm will arise from them. I should recommend, however, 
to put 1 gal. of alcohol to each barrel, in which 1 oz. each 
of allspice and cinnamon, 1-2 oz. each of cloves and nut- 
megs had been standing while the cider was undergoing the 
above preparation, to be strained when added. 

Cider Wine. — Prof. ITorsford, a celebrated chemist, com- 
municated the following recipe to the Horticultural Society 
of Massachusetts, and recommends it for general trial, and 
I have much confidence in the success being satisfactory. — 
" Let the new cider from sour apples, (ripe, sound fruit pre- 
ferred,) ferment from 1 to 3 weeks, as the weather is warm 
or cool. When it has attained to lively fermentation, add 
to each gallon, according to its acidity, from 1-2 a lb. to £ 
lbs. of white crushed sugar, and let the whole ferment urf- 
til it possesses precisely the taste which it is desired should 
be permanent. In this condition pour out a quart of th'e 
cider and add for each gallon 1-4 of an oz. of sulphate d^ 
lime, known as an article of manufacture under the name (k 
" anti-cholcride of lime." Stir the powder and cider unti^ 
intimately mixed, and return the emulsion to the ferment^- 
ing liquid. Agitato briskly and thoroughly for a fevp mo*- 
ments, and then let the cider settle. The fermentation mfi 
cease at once. When, after a few days, the cider has In- 
come clear, draw off and bottle carefully, or remove the^'fee- 
diment and return to the original vessel. If loosely cork*ed, 
which is better, it will become a sparkling cider wine, 'and 
may be kept infinitely long.-' 

Alcohol in Medicines in preference to Brandy, Ilu?n^ of Gin. — 
There is no one thing doing bo much to bolsteriip the tot- 



BEEnifj AHNES, CIDERS^ AND LiCiUORt^. i< 

tering yet strong tower of Intemperance as the Old Fogy 
Physicians who are constantly prescribing these articles to 
"their patients, and one-half the reason for it is to cover the 
.'faults of their own constant use of these beverages. This 
unnecessary call for these articles thus used as medicine, 
keeps up a large demand ; and when we take into considera- 
tion the almost imjjossihilif}/ of obtaining a genuine article, 
':he sin of prescribing them becomes so much the greater, 
when it is also known to all really scientific men that with 
-rJcohol, (which is pure.) and the native fruit wines, cider 
and cider wines, (which every one <:an make for themselves, 
and can thus know their purity,) that all the indications de- 
?iired to be fuilfilled in curi?ij dkease can be accomplished 
'vithout their use. 

Then, when it is deemed advisable to use spirits to pre- 
serve any bitters or syrups from souring, instead of brandy, 
rum or gin, 1 qt, (unless you use such as you know to bo 
luado from our own recipes,) use alcohol 23 of a pt. and 
water to make the quart with about 2 or 3 ozs. of crushed 
-agar for this amount, increasing or lessening, according to 
:lie amount desired, in these proportions. If a dturetic effect 
is desired, which is calculated to arise where gin is prescrib- 
ed, put 1 drachm of oil of juniper into the alcohol before 
•educing with the water; or if the preparation admits of it 
vou may put in from 1 to 2 ozs. of the juniper berries in- 
-tead of the oil. If the astringent effect is desired, as from 
firandy, use, say 1-1 oz. of gum kino or catechu, either, or 
ci half of each may be used. If the sweating or opening 
properties are required as indicated by the prescription of 
rum, sweeten with molasses in place of the sugar, and use 
1 drachm of oil of caraway, or 1 to 2 ozs. of the seed for 
the above amount, as the the juniper berries for gin. 

If the strength of wine only is desired, use the ginger 
wine, or if that flavor is not fancied, use any other of the 
wines as preferred by the patient. 

It should be known, however, that sugar will keep such 
medicines (of the syrup kind) if used in proportion of about 
I lb. to a pint of the fluid, or even molasses used pint for 
T int, and not put in until they are perfectly cool, just aa 

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18 BEERS, WIXES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 

well as alcohol, if the stimulating effects of the alcohol is 
not desired. 

And no one should use any of the descriptions of alcohol 
as a constant beverage, even in medicine, unless advised to 
do so by a physician u'Jio is not himself a toper. 

If families will follow the directions above given, and use- 
proper care in making some of the various fruit wines as 
given in this book for medical use, preparing cider, &c., 
which is often used in prescriptions, they would seldom, if 
ever, be obliged to call for the j^r^^^^u/^f/jw^/r^ brandies, rums^ 
gins, &c. &c., of commerce, and intemperance u-oxdd die a 
natural death for want of support. 

And you will please allow me here to correct a common 
error, with regard to the presence of alcohol in wines. It 
is generally supposed that wine made from fruit without 
putting some kind of spirits into it, does not contain any 
alcohol; but a greater mistake does not exist in the world. 
Any fruit, the juice of which will not pass into the vinou.'B 
fermentation, by which alcohol is produced, vrill not make 
wine at all; distillation will produce brandy or alcohol from 
any of these fermented liquors. 

There is no wine of any note containing le.ss than 10 parts 
of alcohol to 100 parts of the wine, and from that amount 
up to 25 and 1-2 parts; currant 20 and 1-2; goosberry II 
and 3-4; cider from 5 to 9 parts; porter 4 and 1-2; — even 
small beer 1 and 1-4 parts or quarts to 100 quarts. So it 
will be seen that every quart of fruit wine not made fozr 
medicine, or sacramental purposes, helps to build up the 
cause (intemperance) we all so much desire not to encmiroije. 

But as it is well known that some will have brandy, rum 
and gin at all hazards as long as it is made, I can do no less 
than give the formula for making a good article, (if I may 
be allowed the expression,) and would say to all who use 
such drinks at all, do not buy or make only i\\Q purest arti- 
cles in this or any other line, 

British Brandij.—-1^ extensively manufactured, and sold 
as foreign brandy. " Dilute pure alcohol to proof pitch 
(ol parts to 100), add to every 100 lbs weight of it 3-4 lb. 
of argol (crude wine stone) dissolved in water, a little acetic 
ether and French wino vinegar, some bruised French plums, 



BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 19 

and flavor-stuff from Cogniac, (oil of cogniac) ; tlien distil 
the mixture, with a gentle fire, in an alembic furnished with 
an agitator. The spirit which comes over may be colored 
with nicely burned sugar (caramel) to the desired tint, and 
roughened in taste with a few drops of tincture of catechu 
or oak bark." Ures Die. of Arts and Manufactures. 

The constituents of pure Irandy are akoliol^ wate^'^ sugar ^ 
volatile oil, a minute portion of aeetie acid, a little acetic ether, 
mianthic ether, coloring matter and tannin,- Now did any- 
thing like a majority of American manufacturers come any 
■where near to the genuine article as the English do I would 
for no consideration have any thing to do in giving formula 
for the manufacture of liquors ; but as adulteration is the 
order of the day amongst liquor manufacturers, to help those 
into whose hands this work may fall to have a better article 
than they can buy, I give the following formula : 

Brandg. — Take neutral or pure spirit of 54 per ct. alco- 
kol, 5 gals. ; honey, warmed, not to boil, skimmed and 
strained, 1 qt. dissolved in 1 pt. water ; tinctures of cate- 
chu and kino each 1-2 oz. ; tannin, 20 grs. dissolved in a 
little water; oil of Cogniac (pronounced kon-yak), 20 
drops,- (when this article is purchased put it in alcohol 1 
tea-spoonful to each drop and it will keep nice for a long 
time if well corked and you then know the quantity to be 
i\sed as well as if it was not cut,) acetic acid, 1-8 oz. or vin- 
egar 1 qt. ; nice raisins, chopped, 5 lbs.; spirit of prunes^ 1-2 
pt.; mix all and let stand 2 weeks, shaking occasionally, 
then- draw off letting it run through a piece of flannel as 
you draw it. Now if 1 gal. of pure brandy could be got 
from the government bonded ware-house and added to this 
amount, it would much improve it, — but again, if it could 
be got pure there would be no necessity for manufacturing 
it at all ; but even if you get it out of bond you have no 
certainty of a pure article, for the French have become such 
adepts in imitations and adulterations as to out-yankee the 
yankees themselves ; so the best thing to be done is to use 
none at all or else use the pure spirit, and add that which 
comes as near to nature as possible and give them age (which 
improves any spirit) before using and you will have better 
articles of liquors than to depend upon any of the commer- 



20 BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUOUS. 

cial articles of the day, whether to be used as medicino or 
as a beverage. And there is nothing in the liquor busines.< 
any more reprehensible than making what is called Cherrf/ 
Brandy by using the oil of Bitter Almonds which is of the 
same nature as Prime acid. When we reflect upon the va- 
rious poisons^ mineral acids^ &c. used in manufacturing li- 
quors our only surprise is, that, so few have the " snake in 
the boot " as does, and yet this is a phase which has almost 
all arisen in the last 25 years, or since adulteration has been, 
so extensively practised. 

If the cherry flavor is desired, use 1 pt. of wild black 
cherries bruised so as to break the stone, to each gallon of 
the above or any other brandy you wish to use for the pur- 
pose, shake occasionally for two weeks and draw ofl", or let 
settle and draw off as used. 

These cherries may be dried and yet retain nearly all their 
flavoring properties, the same may be done with nearly all 
fruits, then used by putting into the liquors ; or put 1 pt. of 
the dried fruit to a qt. of alcohol and a qt. of water and 
stand about 2 weeks and strained olf and used in quantitie.-- 
to suit the tastes of purchasers, the same is done with prunes 
and this preparation is called spirit of the fruit used ; but 
take my advice and never drink or sell the fruit liquors of 
commerce. 

Rum. — The constituents of Jamaica Kuni are alcohol. 
volatile oil, butyric acid, sugar, and water. 

FORMULA FOR ITS PREPARATION. 

To pure neutral spirit, 5 gals. ; add oil of caraway 1-2 
drachm; tincture of kino, 1 dr.; butyric acid, 2 dr., and 
loaf sugar, 5 oz. Let all the ingredients, except the spirits 
stand in alcohol 1 qt, for a day or two with occasional agi- 
tations. If there is sediment, strain and add to the spirit ; 
color slightly with burned sugar color. And the greater 
the age the better will be the article. 

Ilolhnd Gin. — " The materials employed in the distille- 
ries of Schiedam, are, two parts of unmalted rye, and one 
part of malted ' big,' the former weighing 54, and the latter 
37 lbs. to the bushel. The mash tubs, which gferve also as 
the fermenting tubs, liave a capacity of 700 gallons eaeh^ 
being about 5 feet in diameter at the mouth, rather narrow- 



BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUOKS. 21 

(tr at the bottom, and 4 1-2 feet deep ; the stirring appara- 
tus is a long rectangular iron grid, made fast to the end of a 
■wooden pole. About a barrel (36 gals.) of water at a tem- 
perature of 162 to 168 de(/. F. is put into the mash tun, to each 
i 1-2 cwt. of meal, after which the malt is iatroduced and 
stirred, and lastly the rye is added. Powerful agitation is 
^•iven to the magma, till it becomes quite uniform, a process 
which a vigorous workman piques himself upon executing 
in a few minutes. The mouth of the tun is immediately 
<30Yered with canvass, and further secured with a wooden 
cover, to confine the heat : it is left in this stat« for two 
hours. The contents being then stirred up again, the trans- 
parent spent mash of a preceding mashing is first added, and 
next, as much cold water as will reduce the temperature of 
the whole to about 85 deg. F. The best Flemish yeast is 
now introduced, to the amount of 1 lb. to every 100 gals, 
of the mashed materials. The gravity of the wort is usu- 
ally from 33 to 38 lbs. and the fermentation is carried on 
from 48 to 60 hours, at the end of which time the attenua- 
tion is from. 7 to 4 lbs. ; that is, the sp. gr. of the superna- 
tant mash is from 1.007 to 1.004. On the third day after 
the fermenting tub is sei, the mash containing the grains is 
transferred to the still, and converted into low wines. To 
every lOO gallons of this liquor, 2 lbs. juniper berries, from 
3 to 5 years old, being added, along with 1-4 lb. of salt, the 
whole are put into a low-wine still, and the fine spirit is 
drawn off by a gentle and well-regulated heat, till the mag- 
ma becomes exhausted ; the first and last products being 
mixed together, whereby a spirit 2 or 3 per cent, above hy- 
drometer proof is obtained, possessing the peculiar fine aro- 
ma that distinguishes pure Holland gin. The product va- 
ries from 18 to 21 gallons per quarter of grain; this large 
yield being partlj^ due to the employment of the spent mash 
of the preceding fermentation, an addition which contributes 
at the same time to improve the flavor." — Ures Die. of Arts 
'jud Sciences. 

Its constituents are, alcohol, volatile oil, sugai% turpentine 
in very small quantities, and acetic acid. And it is a very 
iiard thing to imitate. But if manufacturers cannot be 
found of sufiicient honesty to male and sell the genuine arti- 
cle from the above plan, we are constrained to give the fol- 



22 BEERS, WINES, CIDERS, AND LIQUORS. 

lowing formula, with which, the v&ry hed imitation can hQ 
got up ; yet no imitation will ever equal any of the products 
of Nature's Laboratory. 

Giriy — To pure neutral spirits 65 per cent, aleoho]., 5 js;als.; 
5 bottles of best Schiedam Schnaps ; oil of juniper, 1 dr.; 
oil of anise, 10 drops ; white pine turpentine, 5 drops, (or 
what is equivalent to 5 drops of any liquid substance); loaf 
sugar, 10 oz. ; cut the oils and turpentine in 1-2 pt. ot al- 
cohol, shaking several times for a day or two and mix all. 

Let any of the above preparations of liquor stand at least 
2 weeks before using, and as much longer as you are able to 
keep stock ahead. If the Beoderked ^\q,o\io\ or Cologne spi- 
rit is used in these imitations, of the strength mentioned, you 
will have so much the better liquors, as there is not the pains 
taken with the common neutral spirit which is given to the 
higher alcohols for colognes^ &c. which must be free of taste 
and odor. It is purchased of 85 per cent, at about 75 cts. 
per gallon more or less according to the times, in any of the 
principal cities and will bear a reduction of about one -fourth 
in proof by the addition of that amount of pure soft water. 
The exact amount of water it will require to reduce it to 
the desired proof can be ascertained from the Druggist of 
whom the purchase is made. 

Strawberry y Rasph&rrij, and Blackberry Cordials. — Take 
honey, 2 gals.; water, 1 gal.; tartaric acid, 2 oz. ; straw- 
berries or raspberries, 2 gals. ; any of the spirits desired, by 
the above recipes, 2 qts. ; press the juice from the berries 
by enclosing them in a bag, and mix all. Persons of a weak 
habit of body who need a strengthening cordial will find 
these very pleasant and invigorating. They should not bc; 
persisted in however for any great length of time, without 
several days interruption, for fear the habit should clinch 
too strongly his death -riveting chains upon you. 



VINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS. 



23 



VINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, INKS, &c. 



Vinegar in three days witJwut drugs. — The philosophy of 
making vinegar by the quick process, is this, the msans that 
will expose the largest surface of the vinegar fluid, of a cer- 
tain temperature, to the air, will convert it into vinegar in 
the shortest time ; and as there is no way by which so great 
a surface can be exposed, as by the shavings process, and at 
the same time control the temperature, that plan has 
been adopted, as follows : a tub, as represented in the ac- 
companying cut, of a size to correspond with the amount 




Vinegar Generator, or Tub. 

clesired to be made, is filled with beach, maple or basswood 
shavings, planed from the edge of boards cut about 2 feet 
long, by which means they roll into little circles as repi e- 
sented in the tub, the staves of which are represented as 
broken off to show the internal arrangement of the tub, oak 
ahavings color the vinegar black and pine gives it the pecu- 



24 TINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS. 

liar flavor of that wood ; these shavings are to be filled sp- 
to within 3 or 4 inches of the false top, from the lower side 
of which, small strings of cotton thread or twine are repre- 
sented to hang, which pass through 1-4 or 1-8 inch holes, 
made one in the centre of each sqijare of 2 inches over the 
whole surface of the false top, these strings are kept in their 
places bj a knot on the upper surface, the size of these fine 
holes and the strings in them are to be so arranged as to al- 
low the quantity of vinegar to be made at one time to pass- 
through once in 12 hours, or if attention can be given to 
put it up again once in 6 hours will cause it to become vin- 
egar quicker ; the false top is to have 5 tubes, one in the 
centre and one two-thirds the distance towards the outer 
edge of the tab, each way^ as seen in the cut, these tubes 
may be of wood, having an inch hole bored through them, 
length-wise, and of suflieient size to taper a little at the 
lower end to drive tight into holes bored through the false 
top, and of sufficient length to reach within an inch of the 
top of the tub, for the egress or passage of air which comes 
in at the row of holes represented between the second and 
third hoops from the bottom of the tub. This row of holes 
must be made slanting inwards towards the bottom, which 
prevents the vinegar fluid from soaking out through them in 
its passage down the tub. In large tubs these ought not to 
be more than 1 foot apart all around the tub ; and if the tub 
is over 6 or 8 feet high, two rows may be made, and if 15 
or 20 feet high. 3 rows, say 4 & 5 feet between them count- 
ing up from the lower row ; and here allow me to remark, 
that according to the size and height of this tub can large or 
small quantities be made, the taller tub making it with less 
time and less passages through the tub, the 20 foot tub not 
requiring more than 1 or 2 times through, while the short 
tub will require from 4 to 6 to give the required sourness to 
the vinegar. It would be well if at about the second hoop 
from the bottom, there should be a false bottom also, like 
the false top, except the threads, the false bottom and top 
may be supported by nailing a hoop around the inside of 
the tub at the proper places. The space betsveen the main 
bottom and the first row of holes should ho sufficient to al- 
low all the vinegar made at one time to remain therein, or 
else it might run out if ever neglected or forgotten ; and if 



VINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS. 25 

kept there, its heat is better preserved also. This heat a- 
rises from the oxjdation of the dilute alcohol in streaming 
over the shavings thus converting it into vinegar by passing 
and repassing every 12 hours for the time mentioned at the 
head of this recipe. A faucet near the bottom allows to 
draw off the fluid into a bucket as shown, or a barrel can 
be placed under the faucet if the vinegar does not require 
to be again passed through the shavings ; a wooden pump 
with a leather sucker can be made to pass down through 
the whole height of the tub, from the upper space to the 
bottom, the handle reaching through the loose top which is 
thrown over to protect it from the flies and dirt as well as 
to help keep up the temperature in the tub. The false top 
will be packed tight around the edge, with cotton or strips 
of cloth to make the fluid all run down through the holes,, 
and thus spread out over the shavings for its better aerifica- 
tion. These shavings had better be well wet, when put in, 
to aid the vinegar in spreading over the whole surface. 

When all is ready as above directed : take a sufficient 
quantity of good vinegar to saturate them thoroughly and 
run it through the shavings several times so that they be- 
come well soured or acetified, which helps to start the new 
vinegar being made — and when once put into operation it 
should be kept agoing as long as desired for that season 
without intermission, or until the shavings decay which will 
be I know not how long. 

Now take a common wooden pail and put 2 qts. of molas- 
ses into it, and fill it up with good whiskey, pour it into a 
tub or barrel in which to mix the fluid, and add : 6 more 
buckets of water, (soft water is best but well water will do,) 
and keep these proportions for any amount which your tub 
will make at one time, and to each barrel being made, put 
1 pt. of good yeast or the same amount of bees honey. Mix 
well, and put it into the space represented above the false 
top in the vinegar generator, and when it all runs through, 
draw off and put up again or pump it up as your arrange- 
ment may be, and repeat from 3 to 6 times as it may require, 
until of the desired acidity. This makes vinegar of suffi- 
cient strength for all common purposes, and the only objec- 
tion against it will be, if made as directed, that it is too 
sour ; yet it will not keep pickles. 



26 TINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS. 

But I now proceed to give a plan to make good pickles, 
and vinegar for it also ; early in the spring put into a 40 
;giallon barrel 8 gallons of good whiskey and 2 gallons of mo- 
lasses, with the yeast or honey as mentioned above, the bar- 
rel standing on end without a head, stir well and by July or 
August, when the pickles are grown, put them into brine 
for 24: hours only, then rinse Off and put them into this vin- 
egar and as soon as the water is well cut of the pickles which 
you will know by the weakness of the vinegar, then pour it 
off and put on new of the same kind, and you will have 
pickles which are nice and brittle, while those kept all the 
fall in brine, then soaked and scalded, will not digest any 
more easily than a bit of India-rubber and one is as fit to eat 
as the other. This strength can be made as well as any 
other strength, in the tub, but it requires a little longer 
time to make it, as the more alcohol or molasses used the 
longer does it take to acetify. 

Alcohol of 7G per cent proof, 1 gal. ; molasses, 2 qts. 
which gives color as well as strength ; water, 14 gals, with 
the proportion of yeast, does just as well as the whiskey, and 
in places far from market makes the vinegar come cheaper 
as the freight is as much on the whiskey as on the alcohol. 

Some will have no other vinegar but that made from ap- 
ple cider, then put it one-third water and it makes vinegar 
as strong as any one ought to use it ; and if they will have 
it of full strength make it so, only it requires a little longer 
time to make. 

Those who have cider, which has been standing a long 
time and does not become vinegar, will reduce it 1-3 with 
water, and put it through this machine and grind out first 
rate vinegar in one or two days time. Sour beer or ale will 
bear as much water as there is beer, (so will the artificial 
cider if it gets sour,) and make good vinegar when mix«d 
with some other vinegar in making. Small beer, also drip- 
pings from sugar hogsheads in place of molasses, &e. &c. 
Nothing having sugar or alcohol in it should be thrown 
away, as all will make good vinegar, which is .as good as 
cash, and ought to be saved, if for no other purpose, only to- 
have the more to give to the worthy ^poor. 

<It was at first, thought to be absolutely necessary to make 
ihe vinegar fluid of about 7.5 .degrees of heat, .and also keep 



VIKEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY. AND INKS. 27 

the room of the same temperature ; but it has been found 
that by keeping the heat in the tub by the false top and the 
loose cover, that in warm weather it does very well without 
heating up the fluid, although it would make a little quick- 
er with it ; and if desired to make in cold weather you must 
heat the fluid and keep the room warm also. 

Families can make all they will need in a tub not larger 
than a common churn, reversing the bottom for the top ; 
whilst wholesalers will use tubs as tall as their rooms will 
admit. 

The first merchant, to whom I sold this recipe, made all 
the vinegar he could retail, by placing strips of board across 
the centre of a whiskey barrel, and putting the shavings in 
the upper half only, allowing the vinegar to stand in the 
lower half; as his room was so low, he could only use the 
one barrel and a wash-tub at top instead of the false top and 
space as represented in our cut ; it took him only a week to 
make it in this way. I used the vinegar over a year. 

^^"Much has been said of the vinegar plant, but until 
this season I never saw one or had an opportunity to judge 
about the vinegar. I have had one now 4 or 5 weeks and 
it is more than 25 times as large as when I obtained it ; and 
the vinegar made by it is the mildest and most agreeable 
that 1 ever used, and yet it has all the acidity that vinegar 
needs although it has not that sharp, biting, and choking 
sourness of the commercial vinegar. Its cost is 1 qt. of 
molasses to 7 qts. of water, which strength causes it to float, 
and unless it does float it dies, so I am told. It looks much 
like what is called vinegar mother. It grows in size until 
it covers the whole surface of the jar or dish containing it, 
then in thickness by layers like folds of cloth or leather ad- 
hering only slightly, and possesses the power or principle of 
oxydizing this strength of fluid causing it to become excel- 
lent vinegar in 3 weeks time. 

For families it is undoubtedly the cheapest and best vin- 
egar that can be obtained, and I think that even Grocers and 
Merchants, who wish to retail vinegar would find it less 
trouble, and to give as good, if not better satisfaction than 
vinegar made or obtained by any other method. It would 
be ;made in barrels or kegs standing on eiid without a head^ 



28 VINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS. 

with loose boards or covers to secure from dirt or flies. It 
looks beautiful also in glass jars on the mantle or table. 

N. B. — Any person who desires to make a trial of it can 
enclose me $1, and I will send them, by Express, sufficient 
amount in a bottle properly secured in a tin can, so as to go 
safely any distance without injury, with which they can 
soon stock themselves and the neighborhood as extensively 
as they wish ; and I am perfectly satisfied that it will 
please all who may take the trouble and expense to obtain 
it of me or from any other source. 

It is not for the money alone ^ that I speak of it, or pro- 
pose to send it, but to give all who purchase my book the 
best " information " I have upon subjects, upon which I 
speak or treat. 

Best Burning Fluid in use. — Take nine pints of 95 or 98 
per cent, alcohol, and put in one quart of good camphene 
and shake it briskly, and it will at once become clear, when 
without the shaking it would take from six to seven quarts 
of alcohol to cut the camphene. 

These proportions make the best burning fluid which can 
be combined. Many put in camphor gum, alum, &c. the 
first to improve its burning qualities, the last to prevent ex- 
plosion, but they are perfectly useless for either from the 
fact that camphor adds to the smoking properties, and no- 
thing can prevent the gas arising from any fluid that will 
burn, from explosion if the fire gets to it when it is confi- 
ned, then the only safety is m filling lamps in day time, or 
tar from fire or lights ; and also to have lamps which are 
perfect in their construction, so that no gas may leak out 
along the tube, or at the top of the lamp ; then let who will 
say he can sell you a recipe for non-explosive gas or fluid, 
you may set him down at once for a humbug, ignoramus or 
knave. 

Yet you may set fire to this flued if not confined, and it 
will not explode, but will continue to burn until all is con- 
sumed. 

Faniiiies cannot make fluid any cheaper than to buy it, 
as the profit charged on the alcohol is usually more than 
that charged on fluid ; but they will have a better article 
by this recipe than they can buy, unless it is made from the- 



VINEGAKS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS, 20 

Scame., and it is best for any one, even the retailer, only to 
make small quantities at a time, and get the freshest cam • 
phene possible. 

To preserve Eggs. — For every 3 gallons of water, put iu 
1 pt. of fresh slacked lime, and the same amount of common 
salt, mix well, and let the barrel be about half full of this 
fluid, then with a dish let down your fresh eggs into it, tip- 
ping the dish after it fills with the water so they roll out 
without cracking the shell, for if the shell is cracked the 
eggs will spoil. 

If fresh eggs are put in, fresh eggs will come out, as I 
liave seen men who have kept them "1 and even 4 years at 
sea. A piece of board may be laid across the top or on top 
of the eggs and a little lime and salt kept upon it will make 
a surer thing where persons are putting up eggs to a consid- 
erable extent. This will not fail you. For families this 
need not be done, but they must always be kept covered 
with the brine. The beauty of this plan is, that eggs will 
not freeze if kept in any moderately good cellar, Families in 
towns and cities by this plan can have eggs for winter use 
at summer prices. I have put up 40 dozen per year for fa- 
mily use with entire success. 

jl'he plan of preserving eggs has undoubtedly come from 
a patent secured by a gentleman in England in 1791, Jaynes 
of Sheffield, Yorkshire, which reads as follows : " Put into 
a tub one bushel, Winchester measure, of quick lime, (which 
is fresh slacked lime,) salt, 32 oz. ; cream-of-tartar, 8 oz. 
Use as much water as will give that consistency to the com- 
position as to cause an egg to swim with its top just above 
the liquid. Then put and keep the eggs therein which will 
preserve them perfectly sound at least '1 years/' 

Persons who think it more safe can follow this plan. I 
desire in all cases to give all the information I have on eacii 
subject. 

Tlie Southern- IIo)aeMeail has the following on the preser- 
vation of eggs : '• AVe have recently read a new, and per- 
haps a good recipe, for preserving eggs at least two years, 
.^0 that at the end of that time they will be fit for either 
hatchhig or eating purposes. Skeptical as your humble ser- 
vant has heretofore been on that subject, he must coufets 



30 TINEGARS, JELLIES, UONBY, AND I^^KP: 

that it looks reasonable. It is published in a workon Game 
Fowls by J. W. Cooper, M. J). Cooper & Vernon, Media, 
Delaware Co. Pa. 

' Dissolve some gum shellac in a sufficient quantity of 
alcohol to make a thin varnish, give each egg a coat, and 
after they become thoroughly di-y, pack them in bran or 
saw-dust, with their points downwards, in such a manner 
that they cannot shift about. After you have kept them as 
long as you desire, wash the varnish carefully off, and they 
will be in the same state as they were before packing, ready 
for eatino- or hatchiuo-.' 

This is from good authority, as the author of the Gam^ 
Fowls has been engaged for the last 30 years in raising no- 
thing but the best game fowls, and he has frequently im- 
ported eggs. He invariably directed them to be packed as 
above, and always had good success with them notwithstan- 
ding the time and distance of the journey. Dr. Cooper's 
game chicken at Media, is of itself a- great curiosity, a cre- 
dit to any poultry raiser." 

This last plan would be a little more troublesome, but 
still would not be verf/ much to prepare all that families- 
would wish to use through the winter, or even for the re-- 
tailer ; as the convenience of having them in a condition to 
ship would be one inducement to use the last method, for with 
the first they must be taken out and packed in oats or some- 
thing of that sort to ship ; with the last they are always 
r-eady ; and weather permitting, about Christmass or New-- 
Year's, fresh or good eggs in' cities, always demand sufficient 
price to pay for all trouble and expense m the preservation 
and shipment. 

Cuhi Uojiei/.^^Good brown sugar, 10 lbs.; water, 1 qt.; 
old bee-bread honey in the comb, 2 lbs.; cream-of-tartar, 1 
tea-spoonful ; gum arabic, 1 oz.; oil of peppermint, 3 drops; 
oil of rose, 2 drops. Mix and boil 2 or 3 minutes and have 
ready 1 qt, more of water in which an egg is put well beat 
up, pour it in, aud as it begins to boil, skim well, remove 
from the fire, and when a little cool, add 2 lbs. of nice bees 
honey and strain the whole, and you will have not only an 
article which looks and tastes like honey, but which posses- 
ses all its medical properties. It has been shipped in large 



TINEGARS, JELLIES, H05^BY, AND INKS. 31^ 

quantities under the name of Cuba>. Honey. It will keep 
as fresh and nice as when made any- length of time, if pro- 
perly covered.. I have it now a year old as good as new. 

Some use a table-spoonful of slippery elm bark in this 
amount, but it will ferment in warm weather, and rise to 
the top, requiring to be skimmed off. If it is to be used 
only for eating purposes the cream-of-tartar and gum arabic 
may be left out, also the old bee-bread honey, substituting 
for it another lb. of nice honey. 

Domestic Honey. — To 10 lbs. coffee sugar add 3 lbs; water 
and stir it well, then put on the fire, and when it is luke- 
warm, add 2 oz. cream-of-tartar and 2 table-spoonfuls of 
strong vinegar, stir it a little then add the white of one egg- 
well beaten, do this when luke-w^arm; when the sugar is 
nearly melted, add 1-2 lb. of bees honey, stir until it comes 
to a boil, take it off, let it stand a few minutes, then strain 
it, when it is most cold add 10 drops Lubhi's extract of hon- 
eysuckle, stand over night and it is ready for use. This re- 
sembles candied honey and is a nice thing ; similar to the 
sample shown. 

Excellent Honey. — An article suitable for every day's use 
is made as follows : good conimon sugar, 5 lbs.; water, 1 qt.; 
gradually bring it to a boil, skiuniiing well; when cool, add 
1 lb. bee's honey and 4 drops of peppermint essence. If 
you desire a better article, use white sugar and 1-2 pt. less 
water and 1-2 lb. more honey. If it is desired to give it 
the ropy appearance of bees honey put into the water 1-4 
oz. of alum. 

Premium Jloney. — Take 4 lbs., sugars and 1 pt. water, and 
let them come to a boil ; then skim it and add l-4> oz. pul- 
verized alum ; take it off the fire and add 1-2 oz. cream-of- 
tartar dissolved in a little water and 1 spoonful the extract 
or water of rose, and it iu tit for use. 

This took the premium at an Ohio State Fair. 

Or still another plan is- very nice for Honey Imitation. — 
Put 1 021. of bruised ginger root into 1 pt. alcohol, with 20 
drops otto or oil of rose into a bottle and shake occasionally 
for several day» and let settle for use. — Into 1 qt. of water, 
put aluui, 1-i ox. ; boil on a quick fi.re and stir in 5 lbs. of 



32 VINEGARS, JELLIES, HONEY, AND INKS. 

white sugar; when cool add 1 tea-spoonful of the above 
compound and 1 drop oil of lemon. 

We use the recipes for common sugar and the one using 
Lubin's extract of honeysuckle, and desire nothing better. 

Jellies without Fruit. — To 1 pint of water put 1-4 oz. of 
alum and boil a minute or two ; then add 4 lbs. of white 
crushed or coffee sugar, continue the boiling a little, strain 
while hot ; and when cold put in half of a two shilling bot- 
tle of extract of vaniHa, strawberry, or lemon, or any other 
flavor you desire for jelly. This will make a jelly so much 
resembling that made from the juice of the fruit that any 
one will be astonished ; and when fruit cannot be got, it 
will take its place admirably. 

Coynmon Inh. — Take log-AVOod chips, 1 lb. boil in 11-2 
_gals. of Vv'ater to 2 qts. pour oft' and repeat the boiling again 
as before, mix the two waters, 1 gal. in all ; then add, bi- 
chromate of potash, 1-2 oz. ; prusiate of potash, 1-4 oz. ; 
prusiate of iron, (prusian blue,) 1-2 oz. ; boil again about 5 
minutes and strain and bottle for use. You will find none 
•of the gumminess about this ink which is found in that 
made from the extract of logwood; yet it is not presumed 
that this will be as durable as the gall inks, for deeds, re* 
cords, &c. &c. but for schools and common use, the author 
speaks from experience, it is as good as the most costly inks* 

Bhch Copying Inic or Writing Fluid. — Take 2 gallons of 
rain water and put into it gum Arabic 1-4 lb., brown sugar 
1-4 lb., clean copperas 1-4 lb., powdered nut galls 3-4 lb.- — 
i^Iix, and shake occasionally for 10 days and strain, if need- 
ed sooner, let it steep in an iron kettle until the strength is 
obtained. This ink can be depended upon for deeds or re- 
fOrds which you may wish some one to read hundreds of 
years to come. Oxalic acid 1-4 02. was formerly put in, 
but since the use of steel pens it does not work well on 
them. If not used as a copying ink, 1-4 the gum or su» 
gar is sufficient, as it flows more free without them. 

Red Inh. — Take an oz. vial, put in a teaspoonful of aqua 
ammonia, gum arable, size of two or three peas, and 6 grs. 
of No. 40 Carmine, and 5 grs. No. G or 8 also ; fill up with 
ttuft water and it is soon ready to use; this is a beautiful 



VINEGARS, JELLIES, L AND INKS. 33 

ruling ink, and does not cost one-sixtl: as much as to buy it 
by the dozen. 

lilue Ink — Take sulphate of indigo and put it into water 
until you get the desired depth of color ; the article sold in 
little boxes for bluing clothes is the article desired. This 
does well for school children, or any writing not of import- 
ance to keep ; but for book-keeping it is not of any import- 
ance, as the heat of a safe in a burning building fades away 
the color, 

Lidelihle Inhfor writing on Cotton or Linen Goods. — Take 
nitrate of silver, 11 grs. ; dissolve it in 30 grs. (or about a 
teaspoonful) of water of ammonia ; in 85 grs. (or 2 1-2 tea- 
spoonfuls) of rain water, dissolve 20 grs. of gum arable. — 
When the gupi is dissolved, put into the same vial also 22 
grs. of carbonate of soda (sal soda.) When all is well dis- 
solved, mis both vials, or their contents, and place the vial 
"Containing the mixture- into a basin of water, and boil for 
several minutes, or until a black compound is the result. — 
When cold it is ready for use. Have the linen or other 
goods starched and perfectly dry, and write with a quill 
pen, stretching the handkerchief on the table, and carrying 
the pen with a quick motion, or otherwise the ink will spread 
too much; yet no fears need be apprehended, as you can 
write as well on cloth with a quill pen as you can on paper 
vf ith a steel pen. Every piece of white goods in the house 
should be marked. If twice the amount is made at a time 
it will not cost any more, as the expense is only from the 
trouble of weighing, so little is used of the materials. Soft 
^^oap and boiling cannot efface it — nor years of wear. — 
Use only glass vessels. 



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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Dr. Krieders Ague PiUs. — Take 20 grs. quinine, 10 gr?, 
Dover's powders, 10 grs. sub-carbonate of iron, mix with 
iBolasses or mucilage of gum arabic, divide into 20 pills — 
Dose, 2 each hour, commencing five hours before the chill 
should set in. Then take one, night and morning, until all 
are taken. If a liquid is preferred, put it into 1 pt. of gin 
or port wine, or my substitute, and 1 pt. of water. DosC; 
a wine glass as above until broke, then two or three times 
a day until all is used. For small children nothing is bet- 
t-er than five or six grains of quinine in a 2 oz. vial 1 table 
Bpoonful of white sugar, then fill with water. Dose, a tea- 
spoonful as above. Recollect in all cases, first give a ca- 
thartic to cleanse the stomach and bowels. 

Feh'ifuge Wine. — Quinine, 25 grs. ; water, 1 pt. ; sulphu - 
ric acid, 15 drops; epsom salts, 2 oz. ; brandy, 1 gill ; loaf 
HTjpjar, 2 oz. ; color with tincture of red sandcrs. — Dose, a 
wine glass 3 times per day. This is highly recommended 
by a regular practicing physician, in one of the ague holes 
(Saginaw) of the West. This, of course, can bo taken with- 
out any previous preparation of the system. 

l^ye Water. — Take 1 table-spoonful each of table salt and 
r,uiphate of zinc, (white vitriol,) heat it on copper or earth- 
en until dry; 1-2 pint soft water, 1 spoonful white sugar, 
and sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) size of a common pea. 
If too strong reduce with soft water. If the ejes are very 
Bore, or of long standing, take a spoonful of epsom salts ev- 
ry other night for 2 or o times, and use 3 or 4 times daily 
of the eye water. The use of this eye water enabled me to 
lay by the spectacles after 4 years wearing, and I have since 
studied medicine and graduated as a physician, without re- 
Horting again to their use, by the occasional application of 
the eye water. For inflammation of any part of the body, 
ao|,>ly this by wetting cloths. Even for sores about the 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 



35 



<^ikrs and groins of babes, rediice it and apply 3 or 4 times 
will cure them. 

I have recently cured myself also of severe inflammation 
©f the throat or bronchitis with ulceration, by gurgling 
twice daily with this Eye Water — the first 3 days of full 
strength, the last 2 days of half strength only. Thompson's 
eye v/ater is not worthy of comparison with it. This recipe 
alone, to a clergyman or any public speaker, is worth 20 
times the price of the book, if troubled with bronchitis. 

Green 2fomitain Sake. — For rheumatism, burns, pains in 
the side or back, boils, &c. &c. Take 2 lbs. rosin, 1-4 lb. 
Burgundy pitch, 1-4 lb. beeswax, 1-4 lb. mutton tallow : 
melt them slowly. When not too warm, add 1 oz, oil hem- 
lock, 1 oz. balsam Fir. 1 oz. oil Origanum, 1 oz. oil red 
<L'edar, 1 oz. Venice turpentine, 1-2 oz, oil wormwood, 1-2 
oz. verdigris. The verdigris must be very finely pulverized 
and mixed with the oils ; then add as above, and work all 
in cold water as wax until cool enough to roll ; rolls 5 inch- 
es long, 1 inch in diameter, sell for 2s. This salve has no 
<\\\i^\ for rheumatic pains, or weakness in the side, back, 
shoulders, or any place where pain may locate itself. Where 
tlie skin is broken as in ulcers, bruises, &c. I use without 
the verdigris, making a salve superior to Peleg White's old 
jsalve. I have cured dyspepsia with the green salve, by 
wearinor it over the stomach for six weeks. 




Apparatus for making Salves and Lozenges. 

This cut represents a base-board prepared with strips up- 
0^ it of the desired thickness for the diameter of the rolls 
of salve, also a strip of board with a handle upon it, witb 



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which to roll the salve Tvhen properly cooled for that ptir-^ 
pose, keeping the boards slightly tallowed to prevent the 
salve from sticking to them, then cut off the desired length 
and put a label upon them, to prevent their sticking to each 
other. 

A roller, and tin cutter, is also represented in the same 
cut, with which, and another base board, having thin strips 
upon it to correspond with the thickness of lozenge required, 
you can prepare that or other articles as given below. 

Santonin Lozenges. — ■" Take cocoa tost, pulv, (chocolate,) 

1 oz. ; sachr. alb. pulv. (white sugar,) 1 1-2 oz. ; Santonin, 

2 dr. ; gum tragacanth, 1 1-2 dr. ; sol. succ. liquirit, (liquo- 
rice dissolved ) 3 dr., mix. The compound is to be rolled, 
by means of a wooden roller, upon a board, as represented 
above, and cut out into 60 lozenges. The card and paper 
capsules for drying are to be sprinkled with sugar. Each 
lozenge contains 2 gr<, of Santonin, White ones can be 
made by leaving out the chocolate and liquorice and using 
an ounce more of sugar. This is an Eclectic preparation 
or vermifuge, but is already being extensively used by phy- 
sicians, both in Europe and America. Druggists will do 
well by keeping a supply on hand." — -Xewton''s Express. 

Dose — of these lozenges -would be for a child 4 years 1 
lozenge night and moiiiing, for each additional year increase 
or lessen the dose half or one-third of a lozenge for eacli 
year, and continue them for from 2 to 4 days, then a mild 
cathartic unless the w^orms are previously passed sufficiently 
to show a general destruction of them. 

Farisli's Cough Lozenges. — Take powdered ipecacuanha, 
25 grs.; kermes mineral, 60 grs.; sulphate of morphia, 8 
grs.; powdered white sugar, gum arabic, and extract of li- 
quorice, of each 1 1-2 oz.; oil of anise, 20 drops ; syrup of 
tolu sufficient to work into mass form, roll out and cut into 
160 lozenges. 

Dose — one 3 times a day ; or it may be preferable to use 
the cough candy, from the recipe below. 

Medicated Cough Candy. — -To 5 lbs. of candy just ready 
to pour upon the slab add the following loixture and form 
into stick to correspond in size to the price for which they 



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are to sell :— Tincture of squills, 2 oz.; camphorated tincture 
of opium* and tincture of tolu, of each 1-4 oz.; wine of ipe- 
cac, 1-2 oz.; oils of gaultheria, 4 drops, sassafras, 3 drops, 
and of anise-seed oil, 2 drops — and use this freely in com- 
mon coughs, — Fan'sh's Pharmacy. 

Druccgists will get confectioners to make this for a trifle 
on the lb. over common candies, they, of course, furnishing 
their own compound. 

Genuine Seidlitz PGwders.—KoaheWe salts 2 drs.; bi-car- 
bonate of soda, 2 scruples ; put these into a blue paper, and 
put 85 grs. of tartaric acid into a white paper. To use, put 
each into different tumblers, fill 1-3 with water and put a 
little loaf sugar in with the acid, then pour together and 
drink. This makes a very pleasant cathartic, and ought to 
be used more generally than it is, in place of more severe 
medicines. Families can buy 3 oz. of the Kochelle salts 
and 1 oz. of the bi-carbonate of soda and mix evenly togeth- 
er, using about 2 tea-spoonfuls for one glass and have the 
tartaric acid by itself and use a little over 1-2 a tea-spoon- 
ful of it for the other glass, with a table spoonful of sugar, 
all well dissolved, then pour together and drink while effer- 
vescing and they will find this to do just as well as to have 
them weighed out and put up in papers, which costs 3 times 
as much and do no better. Try it, as a child will take it 
with pleasure, as a nice beverage, and ash for more. 

Cough Syrup. — Take hoarhound tops and cut them fine, 
stalk as well as leaf, to the amount of 1 quart ; water, 1 
quart, and steep to get the entire strength of the herb ; then 
strain and boil to 1 pint, and add 3 sticks of liquorice, 1-2 
oz. of essence of lemon, 1-2 lb. honey and 1-4 pint alcohol, 
and simmer to form a syrup. Dose for an adult, one to 
two table-spoonfuls 3 times a day or as often as the cough 
is found troublesome ; for children a tea-spoonful more 6v 
less, according to age. 

The above recipe will cure more coughs than much seve- 
rer medicine. Try it. 

Whooping-Cough Syrup. — Take 1 gill each, of garlics, on- 
ions, and sweet oil ; stew them slowly in a covered dish un- 
til the strength is all obtained, strain and add : honey, 1 



38 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

gill ;, paragoric, and spirits of camphor, each, 1-2 oz. ; hst- 
tie and cork tight for use, 

I>ose — For a child 5 or 6 years, 1 tea-spoonful may be 
given 3 or 4 times daily, or whenever the cough is trouble- 
some, if it should not cause too much looseness of the bow- 
els, more or less according to age and circumstances. 

This is a granny''s prescription, but I care not from what 
source I derive information, if it gives the satisfaction that 
this has done upon experiment : this lady has raised a large 
family of her own children, and grcmd children in abundance. 
We have tried it with three of our own childl'cn also and 
prescribed it in many other eases with satisfaction. 

It is excellent also in common colds attended with much 
cough : this is from experience too, whom I have found the 
most competent teacher in all the land. 

Spirits of spikenard, say 4 oz. to 1 pt. of alcohol and 1 
pt. of water, stand several da3^s, or steep in a close vessel, 
sweeten well with loaf sugar and put into a tea-pot, or some- 
thing of this character, bring to a heat that will throw off 
steam, and inhale it from the spout, into the throat an^i 
lungs, will give great relief to the soreness arising from tlx.- 
constant coughing kej^t up in whooping-cough, which is te- 
dious and troublesome, notwithstanding all that ma^^ b^ 
done for their relief. 

Liquid Opodeldoc. — Take 1 quart of brandy and warm : 
then add 1 oz. gum camphor; 1-4 oz. sal ammoniac; l-l2 oz. 
each, of oil origanum and rosemary ; 1-4 oz. oil wormwood. 
When the oils are dissolved, add 6 oz. of soft soap. Thisi 
is excellent in sprains, bruises, &c, 

Dimrrlwa Cordial. — Best rhubarb pulverized, 1 oz.: pep- 
permint leaf pulverized^ 1 oz.; Capsicum, 1-8 oz.; cover 
with boiling water and steep thoroughly, strain, and add : 
1-2 oz. bi-carbonate of potash, 1-2 oz. ess. cinnamon, and 
brandy (or good whiskey) equal in amount to the whole, 
and 4 oz. loaf sugar. Dose for an adult, 1 to 2 table-spoon- 
fuls ; child, 1 to 2 tea-spoonfuls from 3 to 6 times per day, 
or until relief is obtained. 

This is a very valuable preparation. So is the following : 

Cholera Tincture. — Take the thinnest and nicest cinna- 
mon barkj 1 oz.; nice cloves, 1 oz.; selected gum guaiac. 1 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 39 

'Oz.; each pulverized ; very best brandy, 1 qt. Mix and 
shake occasionally for a week or two. 

Dose — A tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful for an adult, iw 
cording to the condition and robustness or strength of tbo 
system. It may be repeated at interv^als of 1 to 4 hours if 
iiecessary, or much more often according to the condition of 
the bowels. This I have from an old rail-road boss who 
used it with his hands during the last cholera in Ohio and 
never lost a man, whilst other jobbers left the road or died 
oif in abundance. 

Vegetabh Phjsic. — Jalap, 1 oz.; Senna, 2 oz.; Pepper- 
mint leaf, 1 oz.; (a little cinnamon if desired,) all pulveri- 
zed and sifted through gauze. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful put iu 
a tea-cup with 2 or o spoonfuls of hot water and a good 
lump of loaf sugar ; when cool drink all, to be taken fasting 
in the morning, drink gruel freely. If it does not operate 
in three hours repeat 1-2 the quantity. Use instead of eai- 
omcl. 

Magnetic Tooth Cordial and Fain KiUer. — Alcohol, 95 per 
cent. 1-2 oz.; laudaimm. 1-8 oz.; chlorofornij 5-8 oz.; gum 
camphor, 1-2 oz.; oil cloves, 1-2 dr.; sulphuric ether, 3-4 oz.; 
oil lavender 1 dr. If there is a nei"ve exposed this will quiet 
it. -:^nply with lint. Rub also on the gums and any place 
where tht,. e is pain. Pain cannot long €xist under its use. 

KHr acting Teeth with little or no pain. — Dr. Dunlap a den- 
tist of Ghillicothe, 0. while doing a job of filling, for my- 
self, called my attention to the following recipe given by a 
Dental publication, to prevent pain in extracting teeth ; I 
give it, together with his modification and remarks concern- 
ing it, giving my influence at the same time in favor of the 
original or first recipe : — "Tincture of aconite, 1 oz.; chlo- 
roform, 1 oz.; alcohol, 1 oz. ; morphine, 6 grs. Mix." He 
goes on to say, '' another preparation is one of my own — 
Take choroform, 1 oz. ; 1-4 oz, camphor gum or liquid, this 
is what I use most. The use of the first recipe is to prevent 
pain in extracting and destroy sensibility in the gums by 
local application. Moisten two pledgets of cotton with the 
liquid and apply to the gvuns for a minute over the tooth to 
be extracted. My method is with 2nd recipe, take pledgets 



40 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

of cotton, in a pair of small pliers or some tiling you can 
hold it to its place with, well saturated with the liquid and 
rub the gum freely inside and out, and high up or low down 
on the outside for say from 5 to 15 minutes ; by this pre- 
paration I have taken teeth without pain. I should judge, 
if the second recipe would deaden all j9«/«, that the first 
treated in the same way, and for the same length of time 
would relieve every unpleasant sensation. 

They are certainly worthy the attention of all who must 
have teeth extracted for the feeling must be sufficiently un- 
pleasant when all is done which can be done for its relief. 

My wife has had 6 teeth taken at a sitting, but the last 
two she wished to have out, she could not make up her 
mind to the work until I promised her it should not hurt in 
the extraction, which I accomi^lished by accompanying her 
to Dr. Porter's dental office, of this city, and administering 
chloroform in the usual way, just to the point of nervous 
stimulation, or until its effects were felt over the whole sys- 
tem, at which time the teeth were taken, not causing pain, 
she says, equal to tooth ache for one minute. Not the 
slightest inconvenience was experienced from the effects of 
the chloroform. I consider this plan far preferable to the 
plan of administering it until entire stupefaction, by which 
many valuable lives have been lost. Dr. Porter thinks this 
the best method of administerins; chloroform in extracting. 

Essences. — Peppermint oil, 1 oz.; alcohol, 1 pt.; and the 
same proportion of any oil you wish to make into essences. 
Peppermint is colored with tincture of tumeric, and cinna- 
mon, with tincture of red sandel or sanders wood. Winter- 
green with tincture of kino. There is no color however, for 
essences so natural as to put the green leaf of which the oil 
is made into the jar of essence and let it remain just suffi- 
ciently long to extract the coloring matter only, then pour 
off or filter ; but if left too long it gives a dead appearance; 
cinnamon bark does in place of the leaf. Most essences are 
only made 1-2 or 1-4 as strong, and are not worth the ta- 
king, let alone buying. 

Tinctures. — Tinctures are made with 1 oz. of gum, root 
or bark, &c. dried,, to each pint of proof spirit, or alcohol,, 
and usually stand about one week and filter. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 4| 

British Oil. — Fearing that British oil is not now general- 
ly kept as it should be, I give its composition. Take oils 
of turpentine and linseed, each 8 oz.; oils of amber and ju- 
niper, each 4 oz.; Baj-badoes tar, 3 oz.; Seneca oil, 1 oz. 
Mix. This of itself is an excellent application to cuts,, 
bruises, swellings and sores of almost any description what- 
ever, and this recipe alone is worth treble the price paid for 
this book to those who have not got it. ^ 

Good Samaritan Liniment, or Immediate Relief from Pain. 
Take 95 per cent, alcohol. 2 qts. and add to it the follow- 
ing articles : Oils of sassafras, hemlock, spirits of turpen- 
tine, balsam of fir, chloroform, and tinctures of catechu and 
guaiaci (commonly called guac) of each, 1 oz.; oil of origa- 
num, 2 oz.; oil of wintergreen; 1-2 oz.; and gum camphor, 
1-2 oz. This proves a beautiful looking liniment, and I do 
assure you it acts as beautiful as it looks. I paid eight dol- 
lars for this recipe at Finley, Ohio, to a man who was put- 
ting it in 2 oz. vials and selling them fast at 25 cents each. 
He had been there some four weeks and cured many bad 
cases of rheumatism and stiffened joints. The day of my 
arrival at Finley he gave out word that he would go away 
two days after, and in those two days he sold dozens of bot- 
tles to those who had tried it, some taking five for 81, oth- 
ers two, three and four bottles as they could. In fact it 
seemed as though they would like to eat him up or keep 
him always with them ; yet he was a worthless drinking 
fellow. He made it before me, and I paid him a dollar also 
for one pint of it, which cured me of the worst attack of 
rheumatism that I ever had, (and I have had many) brought 
on by exposure to extreme cold by riding in an open sleigh 
in the night. I was waked in the after part of the night 
with its pains in the right knee. Being away from home I 
bore them till morning, at which time I could not bear my 
weight on that leg. I got a piece of flannel according to 
directions and wet it thoroughly with the Good Samaritan 
and bound it on the knee, and by three applicatious, at bed 
time I could walk very comfortably, and by putting some 
of it on my drawers over the knee for two or three days I 
was entirely Samaritanized ; and I do assure you that less 
severe attacks have held me previously for more than a 



42 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

month at a time. Specific directions for use. For Rhewnu- 
turn. — Bathe the parts affected freely, and wet a piece of 
flannel and bind on the parts, and take sufficient of Bill 
Wright's cure to move the bowels. For Headache, Neural- 
gia, Cuts, Sprains, Bur^is, Bruises, and Spinal Affections. — 
Bathe externally, immediately covering with dry flannel, or 
else wetting the flannel and keeping it on the part. F&r 
Chilblains. — Apply night and morning freely for a few days, 
t])c same for bunions and itching feet. For billious headache, 
take internally one tea-spoonful in a little water every two 
liours, applying to the head at the same time until relief is* 
obtained. For Earache — Wet cotton or wool and put it 
into the ear. No article equals this for the ear. For Tooth 
ache — Apply to the gum with the finger ; and to the face 
over the painful teeth, pressing the hand on the face until it 
bums with heat. For Sore Throat — Take ten drops on su- 
gar, sv/allow grp.dually, and bathe the throat freely. Repeat 
if necessary, in all cases. It may be used wherever lini- 
ments are applicable. 

Loomi-'is Liniment for Old Sores. — Take alcohol, 1 qt. ; aqua 
ajnmonia, 4 oz.; oil of origanum, 2 oz.; camphor gum, 2 oz.; 
opium 2 oz.; or best laudanum, 4 oz.; gum myrrh, 2 oz.; 
common salt 2 table-spoonfuls. Mix and shake occasional- 
ly for a week. This was presented for insertion by H. Loo- 
mis, of Edwardsburgh, Mich, hoping it might do many oth- 
ers as much good as it did himself and neighbors. He 
showed me scars of an old sore on his leg which he cured 
with it, after years of suffering ; and also called up a young 
man whose father he had cured of a similar sore, years be- 
fore, which had never broken out again : he used it twice 
daily. His leg became sore after a protracted fever. I 
have great confidence in it myself, and shall try it if occa- 
gion offers — he uses it also for cuts, bruises, horse flesh, in- 
flammatory rheumatism, &c. &c. 

This and the " Good Samaritan " will supply all the pla- 
oee where liniments ought to be used ; and they will not 
cost more than one-fourth or one-third as much as to buy 
the patent liniments sold throughout the country, and will 
do much better than most of them. 

Bcitr in mind that if smaller quantities of these or any 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 48 

articles are desired, to keep the same proportions of ea=cJi 
thing mentioned in the recipes. 

Cod Liver Oil made Palatable and more Digestible, — To 
each quart bottle add one ounce of fine table salt. Mix 
well. By this simple plan, Cod Liver Oil has its peculiar 
unpleasantness overcome, as well as made far more easy for 
the stomach to dispose of. 

Syrup for Consumptives. — Take a peck of tamarack bark^ 
(which has been taken from the trees without rossing,) 
spikenard root, 1-2 lb.; dandelion root, 1-4 lb.; hops, 2 oz. 
Boil these sufficient to get the strength in two or three gal- 
lons of water, strain and boil down to one gallon, when 
blood warm add three lbs. of honey and three pints of best 
brandy, bottle and keep in a cool place. Dose — Drink free- 
ly of it three times a day before meals, at least a gill or 
more, according to the strength and age of the patient. This 
has raised many a person from an almost certain death bed, 
and sent them rejoicing through many years of life and 
health to bless their friends and enjoy their pleasant com- 
pany. Bemember with this syrup or disease, as long a^ 
tliere is life there is hope. 

Fever Sore Plaster or Bhclc Sake. — Take 1 oz. of sweet oil, 
1 oz. of linseed oil, and 1 oz of red lead, pulverized, (or iii 
tliese proportions.) Put all into an iron dish over a mode- 
rate fire constantly stirring, until you can draw your finger 
over a drop of it on a board when a little cool, without stick- 
ing, when it is done. Spread on cloth and apply as other 
salves. My brother, J. M. Chase, of Oramel, N. Y. says 
lie has used this salve more than ten years, and knows it to 
be one of the best in the world for all kinds of old sores, as 
ulcers, fever sores, and all inflamed parts, cleaning and ta- 
king out redness or inflammation, causing a white healtliy 
appearance in a short time, and a certain preventive of mor- 
tification, &e. &c. as well as to prevent soreness in more re- 
cent cuts and bruises also ; and from my own knowledge of 
a salve which is very similar, I have been induced to intro- 
duce it into this work feeling assured that whoever may hnYe. 
Otccasion to try it, will not regret the space it occupies here. 
Try it, you who need it : or the following : 



44: MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

Ointment for Old Sores. — Take red precipitate, 1-2 oz. ; 
sugar of lead, 1-2 oz.; burnt alum, 1 oz.; white vitriol, 1-4 
oz. or a little less ; all to be very finely pulverized : have 
jniitton tallow made warm, 1-2 lb.; stir all in, and stir un- 
til cool. 

Mr. Brownell of Dowagiac, Mich, thinks there is no oint- 
ment equal to this for fever or any other old sores, from ac- 
tual trial, as much so as Mr. Loomis does of his liniment, 
and where I introduce any recipe in this way, it is from be- 
ing perfectly satisfied by the gentlemen from whom I obtain 
them, that they are worthy of trial by those needing them, 
and consequently to give them a place with pleasure. Mr. 
Mead's ointment for Salt-rheum, given just below, is one of 
that character, and a person who might be benefitted by any 
of them will not regret their finding a place in this work. 

Tonic JTlne Tincture. — A positive cure for ague without 
quinine. Peruvian bark, 2 ozs. wild cherry tree bark, 1 oz., 
cinnamon 1 drachm, capsicum 1 teaspoonful, sulphur 1 oz., 
port wine 2 qts. Let stand a day or two. All the articles 
a,re to be pulverized. Always buy your Peruvian bark and 
pulverize it yourself, as most of the pulverized article is 
greatlj/ adulterated. This is the reason why more cures are 
not performed by it. Dose,' — a wine glass full every two or 
three hours through the day until broken, then two or three 
times per day until all is used. This mixture will be found 
an infallible cure for intermittent fever and fever and ague. 
It removes the disease when all other means fail. It should 
be used by all who dislike quinine, and the other nostrums 
of the day. 

Cure for Salt Rheum. — Take turpentine 1-3 oz., and spir- 
its of camphor 2-3 oz. Mix, and apply three times a day. 
This has cured one man who was a mason by trade, which 
greatly added to the difficulties of cure, as the lime was a 
constant irritant. If this fails, the following ointment should 
be tried: Fresh or uiisalted butter 1 oz., beeswax 1 oz., 
camphor gum 1 oz. Melt all together and box for use, ap- 
ply to the parts aff'ected 3 times a day, and take a teaspoon- 
ful of epsom salts every other night for a few days, and re- 
peat after a few days if necessary. Should these fail I 
would certainly try 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 45 

Mca^s SoveHign Omtment.~^J)r. Chase : Having learned 
that you are about publishing another edition of your book 
of recipes, I aui very anxious that the recipe for ointment 
for the cure of Salt-rheum hereto appended should find 
a place therein : 

Take 1 oz. aquafortis, 1 oz. quick-silver, 1 oz. good hard 
vsoap dissolved so as to mix readily, loz. prepared chalk ; 
jjlixed with 1 lb. lard 5 incorporate the above by putting the 
aquafortis and quicksilver into an earthen vessel, and when 
done effervescing, mix with the other ingredients, putting 
the chalk in last, and add a little spts. turpentine, say 1-2 a 
table spoonful. 

In 1840 I had an eruption on my face like a ring-worm, 
which continued to spread, and became very troublesome, 
extending to my head, ankles, and various parts of my body. 
I tried every remedy I could hear of, such as Sands'' Ilemc- 
edi/, Gridleifs Ointment^ Climax Sake from Geneva, and vari- 
ous other means but all to no purpose for over ten years, 
when by mere accident I came across the above ointment, 
in the hands of a strolling fellow, (name not remembered); 
I got a box of him which cured me for about 2 years, when 
it made its appearance again. I found the old fellow again 
and procured this recipe, and compounded the ointment my- 
self; since which timo I have been entirely free from the 
complaint — have given away a great number of boxes of the 
ointment and never knew it fail of a complete cure. I have 
no doubt this is a sovereign remedy in reality as well as in 
name. Respectfuliy yours, Amos Mead> 

Ann Arbor, July 19, 1859. 

This recipe needs no comment, it speaks for itself, yet I 
would say that Mr. 31ead is a man advanced in age, and that 
great confidence may be placed in his statements ; his only 
object is to do good to his fellow beings. 

D)\ Pealodifs cure for Jaundice in its worst /orw.s.-— Take 
Red Iodide of Mercury, 7 grs.: Iodide of potassium 9 grs.; 
Aqua Dis. 1 oz. Mix. Commence by giving 6 drops o or 
•1 times a day, increasing 1 drop a day until I'l or 15 are 
taken at a dose. Give in a little water immediately after 
meals. If it give griping sensation in tJie bowels, and full- 



46 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

rM3«s in the head when you get up to 12 or 15 drops, go 
back to 6 drops, and up again as before. 

This ])r. Peabody is a practicing physician of the " ohi 
school," between St. Clair and Newport, on the St. Chair 
river, Mich, and one of the most successful of that school 
with whom I have ever been acquainted. He used this pre- 
scription on a gentleman, who looked more like a well tan- 
nod and buffed deer skin than like a human being, yet, not- 
withstanding all that another physician of the same school 
<H)uld do, he would have soon died ; this, however, set him 
on his feet again ; and as I was reading medicine in the 
])lace where the gentleman lived, at the time, not having 
then become a QUACK, as all reformers are called by 
fhem ; I obtained the prescription and now give it to the 
public, that all who wish, may have the opportunity of try- 
ing it. I should have less objections to these combinations 
of mercury than to any other.. 

Celehrated Pile Ointment. — Take carbonate of lead 1-2 oz., 
sulphate of morphia 15 grs., stramonium ointment 1 oz., 
olive oil 20 drops. Mix, and apply three times a day or as 
occasion and pain may require. It will give great relief. 
Piles have been cured with lamp oil applied to the parts "1 
or o times a day. Even tallow or any simple ointment i.^ 
good for dry piles, that is, for pain in those parts, comini: 
on often in the dead of night, without apparent cause. 

C, olden Tincture. — Take sulphuric ether 1 oz., laudanum 
1 oz., chloroform 1-4 oz., alcohol 1 oz. Mix. This is ex- 
tensively used by the German physicians, called Hoffman's 
anodvne. Dose, from 3 to 30 drops, accordiug to circuni- 
.'^tauces. It makes an excellent local application in neural- 
gia and other painful afiections. 

Imperial Drop for Gravel and Kidney Complaints. — Take 
oil of origanum 1 oz., oil of hemlock 1-4 oz., oil of sassafra^^ 
1-4 oz., oil of anise 1-3 oz., alcohol 1 pt. Mix. Dose, i-2 
to 1 teaspoonful three times a day in a spoonful of onion 
juice, also eat all the raw onions the stomach will bear, 
and tone up the system with the Tonic Wine Tinctwrc. 
I have seen gravel the size of a common quill, crooked and 
1 1-4 inch in length, which a lady parsed from the bladder, 



MEDICAL EEPARTMENT. 47 

n-nd smaller bits almost innumerable, by the simple use of 
onion juice alone. You will wear a strengthening plaster 
also over the kidneys. This treatment will soon give relief 
where a constant weakness is felt across the small of the 
back as well as in gravelly affections, which cause more or 
less pain, reaching from the region of the kidneys towards 
the bladder, and if gravel,, in the blader also. 

To remove Warts aud Corns in five minutes. — Those who 
liave not patience to follow the more reasonable cure for 
^Yarts and corns, will pursue the following course with suc- 
cess, avoiding, however, the taking cold after removing the 
wart or corn. Take the potash paste recommended for poll 
evil, and after having pared off the dead part of the wart or 
corn, put on the paste and let it remain from 5 to 8 minutes, 
when you will work around it with a sharp knife and lift 
them out, or squeeze them out, and apply sweet oil or viuc- 
irar to kill the alkali. 

S'vcatinr/ Dvops. — Ipecacuanha, saffron, Virginia snake 
root and camphor gum, each 2 ozs. ; opium 1 oz., alcohol "1 
qts. Let stand two vreeks. A teaspoonful in a cup of hot 
sage or catnip tea every half hour until free perspiration is 
induced. It is excellent in colds, fevers, inflammations &c., 
&c. It is good to bathe the feet in hot water at the same 
time. 

Camphor Ice, for Chipped Lips, Hands, Sfc. — Take sper- 
maceti tallow 1 1-2 oz., oil of sweet almonds 4 teaspoonfuls, 
gum camphor 3-4 oz., made fine. Set on the stove until 
dissolved, constantly stirring. Do not use only just sufficient 
heat to melt them together. Whilst warm, pour into moulds 
if desired to sell, then paper and put up in tin foil. — 
If for your own use, put up in a tight box. Apply to the 
chaps or cracks two or three times dail}^, especially at bed 
time. It is also good for salt rheum and piles. 

Bill W^riykfs Cure for Inflammatory Rheumatism. — Take 
1 oz. each of sulphur and nitrate ofpotassa; gumguaiac l-!i 
oz., colchicum root and nutmegs 1-4 oz., all to be pulverized 
and made into an electuary with simple syrup. Dose, one 
teaspoonful 3 times daily. He has taken it much oftener 
without harm, until the bowels moved freely, and thus cured 



48 MEblCAL DErARTMfe5\"t-. 

himself in two or three days time, when one knee was near- 
ly as large as his body, which is not small, so he could at- 
tend to the duties of his house. (The Niagara Plotel, Toledo, 
Ohio,) where from his introduction of it, it has become very 
popular in the treatment of this disease ; he obtained it from 
an old phj'siciau. I would use the Good Samaritan in con- 
nection with it ; and this in connection with that for chronic 
rheumatism. 

Care for Astiima^ — Take elecampane, angelica, comfrey, 
hoarhound tops, and spikenard root, each 1 oz., bruised and 
steeped in one pint of honey; a tablespoonful taken hot 
every few minutes until relief is obtained, then several times 
daily until a cure is affected. This will be found very ex- 
cellent in any cough, even low consumptives will find great 
relief from its use. 

A lady at Yellow Spi-ings, Ohio-, tells me that she cured 
herself of asthma by using for her common drink a tea made 
\)f the leaves of the common chestnut which have fallen from 
the tree in autumn, sweeten well and continue its use for a 
month or two ; she used it for a month at first and it re- 
turned, when she continued its use for two months, and ten 
years had elapsed without its return. It is certainly safe 
as well as simple, and of easy trial. 

Br. Thomps6n''s Celebrated Composition Poicder.' — Take 
bay berry bark 2 lbs., hemlock bark 1 lb., ginger root 1 lb., 
cayenne pepper 2 ozs., cloves 2 ozs., (can be used without 
the hemlock) all finely pulverized and well mixed. Dose, 
a teaspoonful in a cup of hot water well sweetened and a lit- 
tle milk added improves it much in taste. This in the first 
stages and less violent attacks of disease is a valuable medi- 
cine and may be safely employed in all cases. It is good in 
relax, pain in the stomach and bowels, and to remove all 
obstructions caused by cold. A few doses of this, the 
patient being in bed with a steaming stone at the feet will 
cure a bad cold, and often thro\v off disease in its first stages. 
This may be tinctured, if pi'eferred in that shape. 

Valuahle Stimuhnt in Zoic Fevers and after Uterine Hemor- 
rhages. — {Mistura Sjjiritus n'/ii Gallici) — Take best brandy, 
cinnamon water, each -i fluid ozs., the yolks of 2 eggs, well 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 49 

beat, loaf sugar 1-2 oz., oil cinnamon 2 drops, — mix. This 
mixture is an imitation of the well known compound termed 
"^ Egg Flip." It is an exceedingly valuable stimulant and 
restorative, and is employed in the latter stages of low fevers, 
and in extreme exhaustion from uterine hemorrhages. — 
Dose, — from half to one (fluid) oz., as often as required. 

Alterative Syrup or Blood Purifier. — Take best' Honduras 
7?arsaparilla, 12 oz.; guiacum shavings, 6 oz.; wintergreen 
leaf, 4 0Z-; sassafras root bark, 4 oz.; elder flowers, 4 oz.; 
yellow or water dock, 3 oz.; burdock root, 4 oz.; dandelion 
root and top, 6 oz.; bittersweet root, 2 oz.; all bruised. 
IHace these ingredients in a suitable vessel and add alcohol 
?.nd water, equal quantities, sufficient to cover handsomely, 
;set them in a moderately warm place for a week, pour oft' 
the liquor and set it aside. Now add water to the ingredi- 
ents and boil to obtain the strength, pour ofi" and add 
more water and boil again, then boil the two waters down 
to two qts.; strain, and add the liquor first poured ofi", and 
add 2 1-2 lbs. crushed or cofi"ee sugar, and simmer to form 
a syrup; when cool, bottle and seal up for use. If the con- 
dition of the patient is such that alcohol is not admissible, 
you will boil the liquor with the rest down to about 3 qts., 
by which means the spirits evaporate, but it is necessary to 
use it to get some of the properties of the roots, and in the 
last case G lbs, of sugar will be needed to preserve it. 

Dose — From half to a wine glass full according to the age 
nnd strength of the patient, one hour before meals and at 
bed-time : followed up for weeks or months, according to 
the disease for which it is prescribed, as scrofula, and for 
^very disease depending upon an impure condition of the 
blood. Yery great confidence may be placed in this Sy- 
rup. It should be used in sore eyes of long standing, old 
•'iores, uk'ers, S^'c. 

If it is preferred you can have the articles all ground 
finely (of course using dry articles in all cases) and mixed 
thoroughly, kept in a bottle or tight box, and use the de- 
<.?oction, made by mixing a table spoonful of the compound 
In half a teacupfal of water, steep, sweeten, and drink for a 
dose ; the syrup however is rather the best plan. 

4 — CopyriyU secured. 



50 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

I would not give this for Jayne's Alterative nor Swaan*.?- 
or Townsend's Sarsaparillas, because I know it is good and 
we also know its component parts. 

Diuretics. — Take oil of cubebs, 1-2 oz.; sweet spirits of ni- 
tre, 1-2 oz.; balsam of copaiba, 1 oz.; Harlem oil, 1 bottle :. 
oil lavender, 20 drops ; spirits of turpentine, 20 drops — mix. 
Dose — for an adult 10 to 25 drops o times daily, or as oc- 
casion may require. Or perhaps an article made as follows 
can be taken easier : Solidified copaiba, 2 parts ; alcoholic 
extract of cubebs, 1 part; formed into pills with a little oil. 
of juniper. Lose — 1 or 2 common sized pills 3 or 4 times 
daily. For children, simple spirits of nitre ; a few drops ic^ 
a little spearmint tea is all-sufficient. 

Irritating Plaster , extensivehj used hj Eclectics. — Take tar,. 
1 lb; burgundy pitch, 1-2 oz.; white pine turpentine, 1 oz.;. 
rosin, 2 oz. Boil the tar, rosin and gum together a short- 
time, remove from the fire, and stir in finely pulverized man- 
drake root, blood root, poke root and Indian turnip, each I 
oz. This plaster is used extensively in all cases where 
counter-irritation or revulsives are indicated ; as in rheuma- 
tism, neuralgia, and chronic afiections of the liver and lungs, 
or diseased joints, &c. &c: Eclectics use this in many ca- 
ses where blisters are used by the " Old School Physicians," 
and experience has proved it to be a good article. It is ap- 
plied by spreading it on cloth and applying over the seat of 
pain, renewing it every day, wiping olf any matter which 
may be on it, and also wiping the sore produced by it, with 
a dry cloth and re-apply the plaster newly spread, until the 
relief is obtained, or as long as the patient can bear it. Al- 
ways avoid wetting the sore or you will cause inflammation, 
and be obliged to heal it up immediately, instead of which, 
the design is to keep a running sore as long as may be ne- 
cessary, using at the same time constitutional remedies as 
the case may require. 

Eclectic Liver Pill. — Take podophyllin, 10 grs.; leptan- 
drin. 20, grs.; sanguinarin, 10 grs.; extract of dandelion, 20 
grs.; formed into 20 pills by being moistened a little with 
some essential oil as cinnamon or peppermint, &g. 

Lose. — In chronic diseases of the liver, take one pill night 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 51 

and morning for several days, wearing the irritating plaster 
over the region of the liver, washing the whole body daily, 
by means of towels, and rubbing dry, being careful not to 
wet the sore caused by the plaster ; as an active cathartic 
from 2 to 3 pills may be taken in all cases where calomel or 
blue pills are considered applicable by " Old School Phy- 
sicians." 

Twmeihj for Sore Throat. — An Albany physician furnishes 
the following remedy for throat diseases, as an infallible 
cure : — " As soon as the patient is affected by the disease, 
apply a lemon poultice, made by cutting the lemon in thin 
pieces and placing them on a proper cloth; place the poul- 
tice on the throat so as to cover the entire surface ; over 
this place a cloth wet with cold water, so that it covers the 
throat properly ; wet the cloth freely with cold water every 
half hour ; renew the poultice once in two hours. A gargle 
of common juice — 2-3 lemon, 1-3 water — may be used free- 
ly, baker's yeast may also be used in a gargle. A mild ca- 
thartic, composed of senna, peppermint and jalap, may be 
used once per day. Brink freely of lemonade with three 
tea-spoonfuls of good gin in each glass. Bathe the patient 
daily in weak-ley water." 

I incline to give preference to the gargle given below, in 
connection with the poultice and other above treatment : — 
'• Mix 1 gill of strong apple vinegar ; 1 table-spoonful of 
salt ; 1 do of drained honey, and half a pod of red pepper ; 
boil or simmer, then pour into 1-2 pt. of strong sage tea, 
take occasionally a tea-spoonful, and it will be found an in- 
fallible cure." — Ladies' Indispensahle Assistant. 

This is undoubtedly an excellent gargle, yet I do not 
think but what it might fail in some cases ; the author, 
however, has great confidence in the mixed treatment. 

Nervous Pill — Take the alcoholic extract of the Ignatia 
Amara, (St. Ignatius Bean,) 30 grs.; powdered gum arable 
10 grs. Make into 40 pills, and take one an hour after 
breakfast, and one an hour before retiring at night. Half 
a pill is enough for young, or very old, or very delicate per- 
sons. The pills may be easily cut if laid on a damp cloth 
for a few moments. 



52 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

The extract is made by pulverizing the seed or bean and 
putting it into alcohol from 10 to 14 days, then evaporating 
to the consistence for working into pill mass with the pow- 
dered gum. 

Where a prominent advantage is discovered in two weeks 
from the commencement of the medicine, one a day will 
suffice until all are taken. 

These pills w^ill be found applicable in bad dyspepsia, 
nervous headache, sleeplessness, palpitation of the heart, 
confusion of thought, determination of blood to the head, 
failure of memory and all other forms of general nervous de- 
bility, no matter of how long standing. 

This is the prescription of the Rev. John M. Dagnal, 
brought out in 1854, and to my attention, and that of the 
medical class, by Prof Palmer, in the University of Mich, 
in the winter of '56 and '57. He said when this prescrip- 
tion first came out he was practicing in Chicago, and many 
persons sent for the pills, and derived much benefit from 
their use at first, but soon after they seemed to loose their 
efficacy, and he presumed the reason to be that the demand 
was so great that something else was substituted in place of 
the extract. This being the case, draggists ought to pre- 
pare the extract themselves so as to furnish patients with 
the genuine article for home use. It is undoubtedly a splen- 
did prescription if put up with fidelity, even so said the Pro- 
fessor, who recommended them in cases of nervous piostra- 
tion and debility. 

Simple^ hut Effectual Remedy for Crcfup. — Take goose oil, 
and urine, equal quantities. i>o.s^, from a tea. to a table 
spoonful, according to the age of the child. I was called a 
few nights ago at 3 o'clock to a child of 6 months, which 
could scarcely breathe, also rolling, struggling and tossing 
in its efforts to obtain breath with all the peculiarities of 
croup ; I immediately administered a tea-spoonful of the 
mixture, and in 5 minutes it poured out the tough, stringy 
phlegm in torrents, in 10 minutes it was quiet, and in 15 
minutes from the administration it was asleep in its mother's 
arms as though nothing had ever been amiss ; it received, 
nor required any other treatment, and a more grateful pa- 
rent I never saw than the mother. Beware how you touch 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 53 

it old allapatliy, as it was obtained first from an old Butc}^ 
U'ommi. 

Cure for Hijdropholia, and Rattlesnalce Bites. — A. Hub- 
bard, of Boone Co. 111. in a letter to the St. Louis Kepub- 
lican, says : '• Eighteen years ago my brother and myself 
were bitten by a mad dog. A sheep was also bitten at the 
same time. Among the many cures offered for the little 
boys, (we were then ten or twelve years old,) a friend sug- 
gested the following, which he said would cure the bite of 
a rattlesnake : 

Take the root of the common upland ash, commonly call- 
ed black ash, peel off the bark, boil it to a strong decoction, 
and of this drink freely. Whilst my father was preparing 
the above, the sheep spoken of, began to be afflicted with 
hydrophobia. When it had become so fatigued from its 
distracted state as to be no longer able to stand, my father 
drenched it with a pint of the ash root ooze, hoping to as- 
certain whether he could depend upon it as a cure for his 
sons. Four hours after the drench had been given, to the 
astonishment of all, the animal got up and went quietly with 
the flock to graze. My brother and myself continued to 
take the medicine for 8 or 10 days, one gill 3 times daily. 
No effects of the dread poison were ever discovered on ei- 
ther of us. It has been used very successfully in snake 
bites to my knowledge," 

There is no doubt in the author's mind but what this 
gentleman has made a mistake in the kind of ash meant, as 
the upland ash is white ash, from which flooring is made, ha- 
ving a thick, rough outside bark, whilst the black ash has a 
smooth bark, and grows in low, wet land, and is the same 
from which the flour barrel hoop is extensively manufactu- 
red. It is the upland, ivhite ash, that is to be used ; it is 
known, as he says, to cure rattlesnake bites, and a gentle- 
}nan of this place has tried it with success in rheumatism, 
l)ailed very strong and taken in half gill doses. May vomit 
and purge if taken too freely. 

There is a weed growing in rattlesnake sections called 
rattlesnake weed, grows about a foot high and may be known 
from the fact that the stem grows through the leaf, or the 
leaf around the stem like the thoroughwort. This cures the 



54 TANNERS, SHOE AND UARNESS MAKERS DEPARTMENT. 

poison of snakebites by poulticing the place with it and chan- 
ging often. The common tobacco poultice often cures the 
bite of common massasauger, but with them I would use 
the ash as a drink also. 

To cure Tetter^ Ringworm^ and Barlers Itch. — Take best 
Cuba cigars, smoke one a sufficient length of time to accu- 
mulate 1-4 or 1-2 inch of ashes upon the end of the cigar, 
now wet the place with the spittle from the moutli, then ru]) 
the ashes from the end of the cigar thoroughly into, and all 
around the sore ; do this 3 times a day and inside of a week 
all will be smooth and well. I speak from extensive expe- 
rience — half of one cigar cured myself when a barber would 
not undertake to shave me; it is equall}^ successfiil in tet- 
ters on other parts of the body, hands, &c. &c. 



BOOT, SHOE, HARNESS-MAKERS' AND TAN- 
NERS' DEPARTMENT. 



Boot^ Shoe, and Harness Edge Color. — Take 1 gallon of 
water and boil in it for 2 or 3 minutes, 1 oz. extract log- 
wood, then remove from the fire and add 2 oz. copperas, 1-2 
oz. bi-chromate of potash and 1-2 oz. of gum arable. This 
makes a cheap color and is fiir superior to the copperas 
alone, but not equal to the following : 

Best Color for Leather in Use.. — Take alcohol, 1 pt.; tinc- 
ture of iron, 1 1-2 oz.; extract of logwood, 1 oz.; nutgalls 
pulverized, 1 oz.; soft water, 1-2 pint. Mix. 

This will make an excellent polish on an edge or shank 
without heel-ball. Shoe-makers and harness-makers try it. 
This costs the most, but the man that wants the best thing 
will use this if he tries both. This writes well also, and 



TANNERS, SHOE AND HARNESS MAKERS DEPARTMENT. 55 

•Vi^ill make an excellent ink for winter, as frost will have no 
effect upon it. 

TTater Proof Oil Paste Phching. — Take one pint of cam- 
pi leue and put into it all the India rubber it will dissolve ; 
1 pint currier's oil; 6 lbs. tallow; and 2 oz. lamp black, mix 
thoroughly, by heat. This is a nice thing for old harness 
and carriage tops, as well as for boots and shoes. Or you 
can dissolve the rubber in the oil by setting them in rather 
a hot place for a day or two,; and save the expense of the 
camphene, as that is of no u^e only as a solvent to the rub- 
ber. This does not polish, whilst the following does. 

Polish Blaclcing in sticJcform, also ivater pi^oof. — Take sper- 
maceti, 1 lb.; bayberry tallow, 1 lb.; white wax, 1-2 lb.; 
Ijeeswax, 2 1-2 lb.; lampblack, a three-cent paper, or just 
enough to give it the blackness desired ; this is to be well 
rubbeil <lown in a spoonful of sw^et oil with a knife or spa- 
tula, and intimately mixed with the other ingredients when 
aR have been melted upon a -slow fire ; stir until a little 
■tool and put into tin moulds as represented in the cut be- 
low. These moulds should bo about 4 inches in length, 1 
inch at top and 7-8 inch at bottom, a bit of twine is doubled 
into the moulds, with wMch to draw out the blacking when 
.-old. 




Moulds for Stick Blacking. 

Directions. — Warm the boot or shoe and rub the end of 
xlie roll, which is properly lal)elled, upon the warm boot, 
tft^arm it in well, and then if desired to polish, wet the surface 



56 TANNERS, SHOE AND HARNESS MAKERS DEPARTMENT. 

with vinegar, and polish with a dry brush. The vinegar 
upon the surface of this mixture will not injure the leather, 
but oil of vitriol which is mixed with all other polish black- 
ings, is certainly very injurious to leather. 

Best Varnish Blacking for Harness^ now in icse. — Alco- 
hol, 1 gallon, white pine turpentine, 1 1-2 lbs, gum shel- 
lac, 1 1-2 lbs., Venice turpentine, 1 gill. Let these stand in a 
jug in the sun or by a stove until the gums are dissolved, 
then add sweet oil, 1 gill, and lamp black 2 oz.; and you 
have a varnish which will liot crack when the harness is 
twisted, like the old shellac varnish. It is good, also, for 
boots and shoes, looks well and turns water, what more can 
be asked. 

Process of Tanning Calf^ Kip^ and Harness^ in from 6 fo 30 
(laijs. — For a 12 lb. Calf Skin, take 3 lbs. of terra japonica; 
common salt, 2 lbs.; alum 1 lb.; put these into a copper 
kettle with sufficient water to dissolve the whole by boiling. 
The skin or skins will be limed, haired, and treated in eve- 
ry way as for the old process, when it will be put into a 
vessel with sufficient water to cover it, at which time you 
will put in 1 pt. of the compositioi^ stirring it well, adding 
the same amount each night and morning for 3 days when 
you will add the whole, handling 2 or 3 times daily all the 
time tanning : you can continue to use the tanning liquid 
by adding half the quantity each time, and by keeping these 
proportions for any amounts, and if you desire to give the 
leather the appearance of bark color, you will put in 1 lb. 
of Sicily sumac. 

Kip skins will require about 20 days, light horse hides 
for harness 30 days, to make good leather, while calf 
skins will only require from 6 to 10 days at most. The ja- 
ponica is put up in large cakes of about 150 lbs. and sells 
at about 4 cts. per lb. in N. Y. Druggists will furnish it 
at about 7 cents. 

The firm of J. & D, Minich, Tanners, of Bucyrus, 0. of 
whom I obtained this recipe, showed me all those different 
kinds of leather tanned by this mixture, and said with the 
exception of custom work to be done on shares, they were 
going to do all their tanning of these light skins in this way. 



TANNERS, SHOE AND HARNESS MAKERS DEPARTMENT. 57 

French Finish for Leather, — Take a common wooden pail 
of scraps (the legs and pates of calf-skins is the best,) and 
put a handful, each, of salt and alum upon them and let 
them stand 3 days, then boil them until you get a thick 
paste ; m using you will warm it, and in the first applica- 
tion put a little tallow with it, and for the second time a 
little soft soap, and use it in the regular way of finishing 
and your leather will be soft and pliable like the French 
leather. 

We certify that we use the Tanning and Finishing reci- 
pes in Dr. Chase's possession, and that they give good satis- 
faction. J. & D. SllNICH. 

To Tan and Buff Beer Shins for Gloves. — For each skin, 
take a bucket full of water and 1 qt. of lime, let the skin or 
skins lay in from 3 to 4 days ; then rinse in clean water, 
hair and grain, then soak them in cold water to get out the 
glue, now scour or pound in good soap suds for half an hour ; 
after which take white vitriol, alum, and salt, one table- 
spoonful, each, to a skin, these will be dissolved in sufiicient 
water to cover the skin and remain in it for 24 hours, wrino- 
out dry as convenient and spread on with a brush 1-2 pt. of 
currier's oil and hang in the sun about 2 days ; after which 
you will scour out the oil with soap suds and hang out again, 
until perfectly dry, then pull and work until tliey are soft, 
and if a reasonable time does not make them soft, scour out 
in suds, again as before until complete. 

The oil may be saved by pouring or taking from the to^-) 
of the suds if left standing a short time. 

The bufi" color is given by spreading yellow ochre evenly 
over the surface of the skin when finished. 



58 BARBER'S AND TOILET DEPARTMENT, 



BARBER'S xVND TOILET DEPARTMENT. 



Hair Btje, Mad: — Most Hair Dyes require two prepara- 
tions called numbers 1 and 2 ; when these come in contact, 
upon the hair or whiskers chemical action takes place more 
or less cjuickly according to the affinity of the two com- 
pounds for each other, some make a jet black whilst others 
only a brown ; the first one given if applied in a light sun- 
ny day, or when the sun shines upon it when being applied, 
and exposed to the sun until dry will make a splendid black: 
the second a brown, instantaneous, without much regard to 
exposure, only to dry. AVhilst the third is more applicable 
to heads of ladies or gentlemen whose hair is prematurely 
gray ; first then : 

No. 1 — Sulphuret of Potassium, 1 drachm ; soft water, 1 
ounce. 

No. 2 — Crystalized nitrate of silver, 1 drachm • soft wa- 
t-QV, 1 ounce. 

Apply No. 1, and directly after it, No. 2, for a few min- 
utes alternately ; using different tooth brushes for each No, 
(.•lear days are best on which to apply it. The longer it is 
ec^posed to the light without washing the darker will be the 
e-olor. Keep it from shirt bosoms and the face, — especially 
No. 2, as it will make the face sore as well as color it. 

If you do get it on tlie skin, Cyanuret of Potassium, 1 
drachm, to 1 ounce of water, will take it off. This last is 
poison, however, and should not touch sore places or be left 
where children may get at it. 

The No. 1, should be made fresh once a month, as from 
its chemical change it is not so good after that period as if 
fresh made. 

If a brown is preferred pursue the second plan as follows : 

ITair Di/e, Brown. — For No. 1, take gallic acid, 10 grs ; 
alcohol, 1-4 oz.; soft water, 3-4 oz.; mix. 

No. 2 — Take crystalized nitrate of silver, 1-2 dr.; soft wa- 
ter, 1-2 oz.; a(|ua ammonia, 1 dr, or until it becomes clear, 



barber's and toilet department. 59 

for as you begin to add the ammonia it becomes dark ; pour 
in a little at a time and shake it, until it becomes clear 
again; gum arabic, 1 dr. was in the original prescription, 
but I think it does not allow the dye to come in contact 
with the hair or whiskers as without it, and washes off morfe 
with it than without it. 

Directions. — First wash the whiskers or hair with sal so- 
da water, 1 oz. to the pt, of water, then wet the whiskej-s 
as in the first — with No. 1, then No 2. 

This does not stain the skin as quick as the first dye and 
you will think it blacker also, until washed ; but all dyes 
having ammonia in them must become more or less of a red- 
dish brown in a short time. 

Hair Bye for those p-ematurcJy gray, — Take soft water 1-2 
pt.; 1-2 dr, or 1-2 a stick of common lunar caustic ; and 
carbonate of ammonia about 1 table-spoonful; pulverize it 
and mix all ; when done efi'ervescing, cork and wrap the 
bottle to keep it dark, and all hair dyes should be kept in 
the dark, as it is the light which causes a portion of their 
chemical action. 

Directions. — Wet the hair by means of a brush, avoiding 
to wet the skin as much as possible, once a day for 8 or 4 
days,walking out bare-headed as much as convenient through 
the day, then once in 2 weeks, apply a little at the parting 
in the centre, as it grows out and you will keep up a pretty 
browm, instead of the gray hair. But those who think it 
too much trouble with either of the above, will meet with 
success in applying the following : 

Hair Bestorative Equal to IVoods for a Trifling Cost, — 
Preparation — Take Sugar of Lead 1 oz.; Borax 1 oz.; Lac- 
Sulphur 1 oz.; Aqua Ammonia 1-2 oz.; Alcohol 1 gill. — 
These articles to stand mixed for 14 hours, then add Bay 
Rum 1 gill, and 1 tablespoonful of fine table salt with o 
pints of soft water, and flavor with one ounce of essence of 
Bergamot. 

This preparation not only gives a beautiful gloss to the 
hair, but will cause hair to grow on bald heads arising from 
all common causes and restore gray hair to a dark color. 

JIanner of Application. — Where the hair is thin or bald, 
moke 2 applications daily, for 10 to 12 days, working it 



60 barber's and toilet department. 

well to the roots of the hair with a soft brush or the ends 
of the fingers, rubbing well each time. For gray hair 1 
application daily is sufficient, and once a day for any 
persons head will give a nice rich gloss. It is harmless and 
will do all that is claimed for it, and will not cost only a tri- 
fle in comparison to the Advertised Restoratives of the day, 
and will be found as good or better than most of them. 

If it is only desired to change gray hair to a dark color, 
the simple lac-sulphur and sugar of lead 1 dr. each to 4 oz. 
of rose water, or simple rain water will do it, by wetting 
the hair once a day for 10 or VI days; then once or twice 
a week will keep up the color, but where the hair is falling 
out or has already fell, the other articles are required to 
stimulate the scalp to healthy action ; even 1 oz. each of the 
sulphur and lead to a gallon of rain water and applied twice 
daily for 2 weeks, will change the color of gray or white 
hair to a dark color and healthy appearance ; then only once 
in about 3 days will keep up the appearance — but let who 
will tell you that his restorative will give your hair its origi- 
nal color, just let that man go for all he is worth in the 
market at the time, for as time advances his worth will be 
beautifully less. 

All heads should be often washed with soap and clean 
water, but if that is neglected too long, it becomes necessary 
to use something stronger to remove ths grease anddandrufi' 
— then the following : 

Shamjwoing Mixture for five cents a quart.--^'\^\\\ be found 
just the thing desired. Take purified carbonate of potash, 
(commonly called salts of tartar,) 1 oz., rain water 1 qt. ; 
mix, and it is ready for use .; apply a few spoonfuls to the 
head, rubbing and working it thoroughly, then rinse out 
with clean soft water, and dry the hair well with a coarse, 
dry towel, applying a little oil or pomatum to supply the 
natural oil which has been saponified and washed out by the 
operation of the mixture. A barber will save at least $5, 
out or this 5 cents worth of material. 

Renovating Mixture. — Take aqua ammonia 2 ozs., soft 
water 1 qt., saltpeter 1 teaspoonful, variegated shaving soap 
X oz., or one 3 cent oake, finely shaved or scraped ; mix allj. 



barber's and toilet department. 61 

shake well, and it will be a little better to stand a few hours 
before using, which gives the soap a chance to dissolve. 

Dircdions. — Pour on to the place a sufficient amount to 
well cover any grease or oil which may get spilled or daubed 
upon coats, pants, carpets &c.. sponging or rubbing well and 
applying again if necessary to saponify the amount in the 
garment, then wash off with clear cold water. If it 
is a carpet and you do not wish to take it up, put on 
clean water and sponge it up as dry as you can, and when 
dry, a stiff brush will loosen the dirt which may remain. 
Colors will not be injured or changed by it. I have used 
this on coat collars, satin vests, carpets, sh allies, &c. 

I had an oil spot taken out of the carpet with it in the 
Presbyterian church of this city, where nearly a lampfull of 
oil had been overturned years before, without taking up the 
carpet, or changing the colors in the least. It is the great 
desideratum, and only needs a trial to be generally used for 
all, or nearly all, renovating purposes. Coat collars can be 
cleaned with it, and a knap raised again with a stiff brush, 
and pressed neatly, look nearly as well as when new. 

Don't squirm now, for these are not half it will do— some 
people fly entirely off the handle when a thing is said to do 
many things — for my part, however, I always admire a thing 
in proportion to the labor which can be performed by it, or 
with it. This preparation will shampoon like a charm, rais- 
ing a lather in proportion to the amount of grease and dan- 
druff in the hair. It will remove paint, even, from a board, 
T care not how long it has been applied, if oil was used in 
the paint — and yet it does not injure the finest textures, for 
the simple reason that its affinity is for grease or oil, chang- 
ing them to soap, and thus loosening any substance with 
which they may be combined. 

All persons who think any or all of the above statements 
to be whoppers, will oblige me, in laying out a dime to test 
it for themselves, then they will know as well as I do, that 
they are facts. 

I give this receipe a place here, as barbers often engage 
in the employment of renovating as a branch of their busi- 
ness, and as it is also such an excellent shampoon. 

Cologne Lnpcrial — Take of oils of bergamot 1 oz., nero- 



62 barber's and toilet department. 

li 1 dr., jessamine 1-4 oz., garden lavender 1 dr., cimiamon 
5 drops, tincture of benzoin 1 1-2 oz., tincture of musk 1-4 
oz., deodorized alcohol 2 qts., rose water 1 pt. Mix, and 
allow the preparation to stand .several days, shaking occa- 
sionally, before filtering for use or bottling. This is rather 
expensive but of a most delightful flavor. I give another, 
less expensive, yet a very nice article : 

Family Cologne. — Take oils of rosemary and lemon, each 
1-4 oz., bergamot and lavender, each 1 dr., cinnamon 8 
drops, clove and rose, each 15 drops., common alcohol 2 qts. 
]^Iix, and shake 2 or 3 times daiJ}'- for a week. Colognes 
need only be used in very small quantities, the same is true 
of highly flavored oils or pomatums for the hair, as too much, 
even of a good thing, soon disgusts those whom they were 
intended to please. 

N. Y. Barlei's Stay Hair Oil. — Take castor oil, 6 1-2 
pts., alcohol 1 1-2 pt., oil of citronella 1-2 oz., lavender oil 
1-4 oz., mixed, and well shaken, makes one of the finest oils 
for the hair in use. I have been told that this amount of 
alcohol Avill not cut the oil. of course we know that, that is, 
it does not become clear, neither do we want it to do so, it 
combines with the oil, and destroys all the gumminess and fla- 
vor peculiar to castor oil, by which it becomes one of the 
best oils for the hair which can be applied. Gills or any 
other measure will do as well, keeping the proportion of 
flavoring oils, and if the citronella cannot be got, use some 
other oil in its place. 

Macassar or Hose Hair Oil. — Take olive oil 1 qt., alcohol 
2 1-2 ozs., rose oil 1-2 dr. ; tie chipped alkanet root 1 oz., 
into 2 or 3 little muslin bags, and let them lie in the oil un- 
til a beautiful red is manifested, then hang them up to drain, 
for if you press them you get out a sediment you do not 
wish in the oil. 

Ox Marrow Pornatum. — One of the most beautiful po- 
mades, both in color and action, is made as follows : Take 
beefs marrow 1 lb., alkanet root, not chipped, 1 oz. ; put 
them into a suitable vessel and stew them as you would 
render tallow, strain through 2 or three thicknesses of mue- 



FAlirjElLS PEPAllTJIEXT. 63 

lin. and add 14 an much castor oil as there is of the marrow, 
and 1 gill of bay rum, which takes away the peculiar fresh' 
iioss of the marrow, theu use the extract of the common roj^e 
geranium to give it the flavor desired. Half as much suet 
as marrow, also makes a very nice article, and can be used 
if marrow is hard to obtain. 

To mahe Extracts. — Take green rose geranium leaves and 
stems, press them into a bottle, all the bottle will seem to 
hold, then cover them with best alcohol and lot stand about 
a week. Same with rose leaves, or any other garden or 
liouse herb, which you wish to use the extract of. This 
plan is preferable to purchasing extracts, many of which 
have but very little flavoring properties, at least not half 
sufficient to justify the large prices asked for them. 



FARRIER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Cure for CJwlic in iZbrs^s.— Spirits of Turpentine 3 oz.; 
Laudanum 1 oz.; Mix and give all for a dose. If relief is 
not abtaiued in one hour, repeat the dose, adding 1-2 oz. of 
the best powdered aloes well dissolved together, and have 
no uneasiness about the result. Symjjtoms—ThQ horse often 
lies down, and suddenly rises again with a spring ; strikes 
his belly with his hind feet, sta'mps with his fore feet, and 
refuses every kind of food, &c., &c. 

Sure Remedy for ^0^5.— When a horse is attacked with 
bots, it may be known by the occasional nipping at their 
own sides, and by red pimples or projections on the inner 
surface of the upper lip which may be seen plainly by turn- 
up the lip. First, theu, take two quarts of new milk with 
1 quart of molasses, and give the horse the whole amount, 
ffteeti mimites, afterwards give two quarts of very strong 
sage tea; thirty minutes after the tea, you will give 3 pinte 
(or enough to operate as physic) of curriers oil ; the cure 



64 farrier's DErARTMENT* 

will be complete, as the milk and raolass'ss cause the bots to 
let go tlieir hold, the tea puckers them up aud the oil carries 
them entirely away. If you have any doubt, one trial will 
satisfy you perfectly. 

Riuf/ Bone and Spavin Cure. — Take Egyptiacum and wine 
x'inegar, of each, 2 oz.; water of pure ammonia, spirits of tur- 
pentine and oil of orriganum, of each 1 oz.; euphorbium and 
cantharides, of each l-'l oz.; glass made fine and sifted, 1 
dr.; put them in a bottle, aud when used let them be well 
shaken. 

This is to be rubbed upon the bone enlargment with the 
hand or spatula, for half an hour each moi-ning, for 6 or 7 
mornings in succession. Let the horse be so tied that he 
cannot get his mouth to the place for 3 or 4 hours, other- 
wise, he will blister his mouth and blemish the part. Then 
let him run until the scab comes oif of itself without scrap- 
ing, so as to injure the roots of the hair. Then repeat a8 
before, and follow up for 3 or 4 times blistering, and all 
bone enlargements will be re-absorbed, if not of more than a 
year or two's standing. 

It is good also for callous sinews and strains of long 
standing — but if there is ringbones or spavins of so long 
standing, that this does not cause their cure, you will pro- 
ceed as follows: add to this compound, corrosive sublimate 
in powder one-half oz., oil of vitriol, one-half oz.; and com- 
mon salt, one-half oz. When it is again ready to use, always 
shaking well as you use either preparation. Now clip the 
hair, and prick the bone or callous part as fall of holes as 
3"0u can with a pegging awl, which is just long enough to 
break through the callous part only. This done, bathe the 
part with vinegar, until the blood stops flowing, then apply 
the double compound as at first for 4 or 6 mornings onlVy 
repeating again if necessary; and 99 of every 100 ringbones 
or spavins will be cured; aud most of them with only the 
first preparation. 

The Egyptiacum is made as follows:-— Take verdigris and 
alum in powder; of each 1 and one-half oz.; blue vitrioL 
powdered, one-half oz.; corrosive sublimate, in powder 1-8 
oz.; vinegar, 2 and one-half oz.; honey, one-half lb.; boil over 
a slow fire until of a proper consistence. When used it 



FARRIERS DEPARTMENT. tfO 

Tiust be stirred up well, as a -sediment will deposite of some 
^"jf the articles. 

If the hair does not come out again after using the last, 
blister, use the Good Samaritan liniment freely on the part; 
but the first will never disturb the growth of hair. It is 
best always to commence this kind of treatment early in tho 
season, so as to effect a cure before cold weather comes on. 

Positive Cure for Poll-evil and Fistida. — Take 1 pound 
<:ommon potash dissolved in l-'2 pint of water. Add l-"2 
oz. of the extract of belladona and 1 oz. of gum arabic dis- 
solved in a little water, work all into a paste with wheat; 
tiour and box or bottle up tight. 

In applying this, the place should be well cleansed wich 
soap suds, (castile soap is best) then tallow should be applied 
all around outside to prevent the hair from beiag removed 
by the paste dissolving and running over it. Now this paste 
must be pressed to the bottom of all the orifices. If very 
-deep it must be made sufficiently thin to inject it by means 
of a small syringe and repeated once in two days, until ail 
the callous pipes and hard fibrous base around the poll-evil 
■or fistula, is completely destroyed. Sometimes one appli- 
cation has cured cases of this kind, but it will generally 
"require two or three applications. If the horse cannot be 
kept up you will put a piece of oiled cloth over the place. 
The advantage of this caustic over all others is that less 
pain and inflammation is induced than by any other plan. 

Poll-evils and fistulas are sometimes eat out with lunar 
caustic, then the hole filled with curriers oil, but it is more 
painful than the other. Cedar oil is to be applied to the 
tendons to prevent them stiflening in poll-evil or other cases. 

This will destroy corns and warts as mentioned under 
that head. 

Degray^ or Sloans Horse Ointment. — Rosin, 4 oz.: bees- 
wax, -i oz.; lard, 8 oz.; honey, 2 oz. Melt these articles 
slowly, and gently bring to a boil, and as it begins to boil, 
f-lowly add a little less than a pint of spirits turpentine, stir- 
ring all the time this is being added, and then remove from 
the fire and stir till cool. 

This is an extraordinary ointment for bruises, in ^esh or 
5 — Copyright sccnrcd. 



qI farrier''s department. 

hoof, 'broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, &c.,. 
&c., or when a horee is gelded, to heal and keep away flien. 
It i^ excellent to take fire out of burns or scalds in humaii 
flesh also. 

St, Johi's Condition Powdcis. — Take fenugreek, cream of 
tartar, gentian, sulphur, saltpeter, rosin, black antimony 
and ginger, equal quantities of each, all to be finely pulver- 
ized ; cayenne also fine, half the quantity of any one of the 
others. Mix thoroughly. It is used in yellow water, stiff' 
•complaints, hide bound, cough, colds, distemper, and all 
Either diseases where condition powders are generally ad- 
ministered. They carry oif gross humors and purify the 
blood. Bosdy in ordinary cases give two tea-spoonfuls once. 
% day in feed. In exkeme cases, give it twice daily. If 
these do not give as gc>od satisfaction as St. John's, or any 
other condition powder that costs more than double that it 
does to make this, then I wnll acknowledge that travel and 
study are of no account in obtaining Information. 

Nervo and Bono Lininmit. — Take beef's gall 1 quart, al- 
{3ohol, 1 pt., volatile liniment, 1 lb., spirits of turpentine, 1 
lb., oil of origanum, 4 oz^, aqua ammonia, 4 oz., tincture of 
cayenne, 1-2 pt,, oil amber, o oz., tincture Spanish fly, 6 oz- 
Mixed. Uses too well known to need description. 

This is more particularly applicable to horse flesh. 

Treatment for Brohen Lzmhs instead of inlnmianly shooting 
the Horse. — In the greater number of fractures it is only 
iiecessary to partially sling the horse by means of a broad 
piece of sail or other strong cloth, (as represented in the fig- 
ure,) placed under the animal's belly, furnished with two 
breechings, and two breast girths, and by means of ropes and 
pulleys attached to a cross beam above, he is elevated or 
vowered as may be required. It would seldom be necessa- 
ry to raise them entirely off their feet, as they will be more 
quiet, generally, when allowed to touch the ground or floor. 
The head stall should be padded and ropes reaching each 
A»ay to the stall, as v>'eli as forward. Many horses will 
plunge about for a time, but soon quiet down^ with an occa- 
Hional exception; when they become quiet, set the bone, 
v^liat ifc well, padding tho splints with batting, securing- 



them well, then keep wet with cold water as loag as the 
least inflammation is present, nsinar light food, and a little 
"prater at a time, but may be given often. 

The ii£e of the different backles ami straps will be easily 
understood. 




SuppOTtiag Appcrdts tn Lameness <- 

If he is very restive, other ropes can be au^ched to the 
corner rings which are there for that purpose, which will 
afford much relief to the horse, and give ^ther security to 
the bandages. 

I knew a horse'fi thigh to crumble npon the race course, 
without apparent cause, which Ir^i him the stake he would 
have easily won ; he was hauled mil^ upon a E\ed^ slung, 
and cured bj his humane owner. Then let every fair means 
be tried, before you consent to take the life of^ ecen,^ a bro- 
ken legged horse. 

Wound Bakamfor Horss and Human Flesh. — '*T3.ke gam 
benzoin, in powder, 6 oz.; balsam of tolu, in powder, 3 03^ 
^-Tim Etorax, 2 oz.; frankincense, in powder, 2 oz.; gum 
iiiyrrh, in powder, 2 02.: Socotrine aloes, in powder, 3 0*4 



08 MISCELLANEOt"?. 

alcohol, 1 gal. Mix them all together, and put them in » 
digester, and give them a gentle heat for three or four days : 
then strain. 

A better medicine can hardly be found in the materia 
medica for healing green wounds in every part of the body , 
particularly those on the tendons or joints. It is frequently 
given internally along with other articles, to great advan- 
tage in all colds, flatulency, and in other debilities of the 
stomach and intestines. Every gentleman, or farmer, ought 
to keep this medicine ready prepared in his house, as a fam- 
ily medicine, for all cuts, or recent wounds, either among 
his cattle or any of liis family. Thirty or forty drops on a 
lump of sugar, may be taken at any time, for flatulency, or 
a pain at the stomach ; and in old age, where nature require? 
stimulation." — Every Man his oivn Farrier. 



MISCELLANEOUS, 



Washinq Fluid. — Take 1 lb. sal soda, 1-2 lb. good stone 
lime and 5 qts. of water, boil a short time, let it settle and 
pour off the clear fluid into a stone jug and cork for use ; 
.soak your white clothes over night, in simple water, wring 
out, and soap wrist-bands, collars and dirty or stained pla- 
ces. Have your boiler half filled with water just beginning 
to boil ; then put in one common tea-cupful of the fluid, stir 
and put in your clothes, and boil for half an hour, then rub 
lightly through one suds only., rinsing well, bluing as usual, 
and all is complete. Soak your calico and woolen in the 
sudsing water while hanging out the white ones, then wash 
them out as usual. Of course washing out woolen goods 
before you do the calico — this fluid brightens^ instead «)f 
fading the colors in calico. 

This plan requires very little wash-board rubbing for white 
clothes, saves one half the soap and more than half tlie labor, 
and does not injure the clothes, but saves the wear of rubbing 



MISCBLLANEOUS, 6^ 

tlirougli two suds, before boiling, and is a good article for 
renioying grease from floors and doors, and to remove tar or 
grease from hands or clothes. 

I hope ex^ery lady into whose hands this recipe may fall, 
will give i± a trial, as my family have now used it over H 
years. It does not injure clothes but makes them wash full 
half easier than the old plan. 

Soft Soap for half the expense and one-foiirth the trouhle of 
ihc old tear/., — Take two bars of good hard soap, cut fine and 
'lissolve it in 4 gals, of soft water, and add 1 lb. sal soda. 
When all is dissolved and well mixed put away for use. 

This soap can be made thicker or thinner by using more 
or less water, as you may think best after once making it. 
Even in common soft soap if this amount of sal soda is put 
into it, washing will be done easier, and the soap will niort^ 
than compensate for the expense and trouble of the addition. 

Prepared Oil for Carriages^ Wagons and Floor Painting. — 
To 1 gal. linseed oil, add '1 lbs, gum shellac ; lithrage, l-i' 
lb.; red lead, 1-4 lb.; umber, 1 oz. Boil slowly as usual 
until the gums are dissolved : grind your paints in this (any 
color) and reduce with turpentine. Yellow ochre is used 
for floor painting. This dries quick and wears exceedingly 
welh and is said to make a good furniture varnish ; I have 
not tried it for varnishing however. 

To cure Warts loitlwut Pain or Soreness. — Get a small a- 
mount of muriatic acid, keep it in a place where it will not 
3>e overturned, or it will destroy the cork and run out ; or 
».'Ork it with beeswax, with a. stick the si^e of a common knit- 
ting needle, apply to the top of the wart night and morning, 
just what adheres to the stick by dipping it into the acid 
once, and rubbing it well into the top of the wart with th«;' 
stick each time. Do not allow the acid to touch the wel.l 
skin, if it does a little oil of any kind will stop the pain oj- 
smarting. Do this a few days, and a safe and painless cure 
is the result. If you let it drop o.n your clothes, a hole 
will also be the result. The juice of a common milk weed 
.-applied two or three times a day for a week will cure near- 
ly every wart, and often in less than a week's time. 

To cure Corns. — Soak the foot or feet on which they are 



W MISCELLANKOUSc 

located for fifteen or twenty minutes^ night and morning it? 
cool or cold water, (tepid water may be used) remove a,% 
each time all which can be removed without pain or bleed- 
ing, keep away all pressure, and in a few days or weeks at 
most, you will be obliged to buy corn to feed the chickens^ 
as you will not have any of your own. 

Polish for removing Stains^ Spots ani Mildexcs from Furnir 
twre. — Take 1-2 pint 95 per cent, alcohol ; 1-4 oz. each pul- 
verized rosin and gum shellac. Let these cut in the aico- 
hoi, then add 1-2 pint linseed oily shake well and apply with 
a sponge or brush. 

Secret Art of Catching Fish. — The juice of loveage or 
smellage mixed vvith any kind of bait,, or a few drops of the 
oil of Pvhodium. India cockle also^ (Cociilus Indiciis,) is 
sometimes mixed with flour dough and sprinkled on the sur- 
face of still water. This intoxicates the fish and makes 
them turn up on the top of the water, when they are taken 
and put in a tub of fresh water until they revive when all 
is right. He may be eaten without fear,, but this will de- 
stroy many fish. Oil of Khodium is the best plan. 

Afi excellent Tooth Powder.. — Take a little suds made with 
castile soap, and an equal amount of spirits of camphor, then 
thicken with finely pulverized chalk and charcoal, equal 
quantities,, to a thick paste. Apply with the finger, rub- 
bing thoroughly, and it will whiten the teeth better than 
'any tooth powder you can buy. A brush is good to Work 
"between the teeth. Moisten with a little camphor as you 
use it. Never use stifi" brushes. Badger's hair is soft and 
best for the teeth. 

Dentifrice^ which removes tartariotis adhesions,, arrests d^cay, 
and induces a healthy action of the gums. — Dissolve 1 oz. of 
borax in 1 1-2 pints of boiling water, and when a little cool 
add one tea-spoonful of the tincture of myrrh and one table 
spoonful of the spirits of camphor and bottle for use. 

Directions. Take a table-spoonful of this mixture to the 
same amount of warm water and apply at bedtime, by means 
of a soft brush. Badger's hair brushes are the best, as the 
common bristle brushes tear the gums and should never b^ 



MISCSLLANEOUS. 71:, 

?ti8ed. Thrs to persons who have tartarious adheeione on 
the teeth is worth more than the price of the pamphlet. 

Rat Exterminator. — Take 12 lbs. of flour and sufficient 
water to make it into a thick paste, then work in 4 os. of 
phosphorus which is melted in 6 oz. of butter. This you 
will leave ''hickly spread on bread where rats can get at it, 
«jovered with sugar. If it is desired to sell this article and 
vou wish to color to hide its composition, work into it 8 02.. 
of tumeric. 

Or take warm water, one quart ; lard, 2 lbs.; phosphorus, 
1 oz. Mix, and thicken with flour. One of these has cau- 
sed more paper puiSng and rat bursting, than many things 
'Of a much greater account. Yet rats and mice are very an- 
noying; and these will clear out the nuisances and that is 
£,11 that can be asked for them. 

American Cement^ or Furniture Glue. — To mend marble, 
wood, glass, china and ornamental ware. Take water, 1 
gallon ; nice glue, 3 pounds ; white lead, 4 ozs.; alcohol, 1 
qt. Mix. One oz. vials sell for 25 cents. Directions — If 
it is cold weather warm the bottle until the cement is die- 
fioived ; stir, thon with the finger or brush rub it on the 
broken parts, both edges, put together, and retain in their 
places until dry. 

Electro Gold and Sih^er Phting. — Take a $2,50 or any 
other piece of gold and put it into a mixture of 1 oz. of ni- 
tric and 2 ozs. of muriatic acids, (glass vessels only are to be 
ysed in this work ;) when it is all cut, dissolve 1-4 oz. of sul- 
phate of potash in 1 pt. pure rain water and mix slowly with 
the gold solution, stirring well ; then let stand and the gold 
will be thrown down, then pour off the acid fluid, and wash 
the gold in two or three waters, or until no acid is tasted by 
touching the tongue to the gold, Now dissolve 1 oz. of Cy- 
anuret of Potassium in 1 pint of pure rain water, to which 
add the gold, and it is ready to use. Clean the article to 
l>e plated from all dirt and grease with whiting and a good 
brush, (if there are cracks it may be necessary to put the ar- 
ticle in a solution of caustic potash, — ot all events every 
particle of grease and dirt must be removed ;) then suspend 
ihe article in the Cyanuret-of-gold solution, with a smali 



4 "I MISCELLANEOUS. 

ftrlp of zinc cut about the widtli of a common knitting noo- 
dle, hooking the top over a stick which will reach across the 
top of the vessel or bottle holding the solution. If the zinc- 
is too large the deposit will be made on the article so fast, 
that it will scale off. The slower the plating goes on the 
better, and this is arranged by the size of the zinc used. 
When not using the plating fluid keep it corked and it is 
always ready for use,, bearing in mind that it is as poison as 
arsenic and must be put high, out of the way of children, 
and labelled Foiwn.,. although you will have no fears in 
usiug it, — yet accidents uiight arise if its nature were not 
known. Silver Flating is done every wa}^ the same as gold 
(using coin,) except, that rock salt is used^ instead of the 
Oyanuret of Potassium,, to hold the silver in solution for use, 
and when it is of the proper strength of salt it has a thick-, 
curdly appearance, or you can add salt until the silver will 
deposit on the article to be plated which is all that is requi- 
red. No hesitation need be felt in trying these recipes, as 
ihey are obtained of a practical jeweller who plated all his- 
small lathes and other brass tools, pinch-beck and silver 
watches, spoons, &c. &c. These two recipes are worth 
twenty times as much as I get for the whole book. At least: 
this is the ca.se with all jewellers. 

IVrithg on Glass hj the Bays of the Sun. — "' Dissolve chalk 
in aquafortis to the consistency of milk, and add to that a 
strong solution of silver. Keep this liquor in a glass de- 
canter, well stopped. Then cut out from a paper the letters 
you would have appear, and paste the paper on the decan- 
ter or jar, which you are to place in the sun in such a 
manner that its rays may pass through the spaces cut out of 
the paper, and fall on the surface of the liquor. The part 
of the glass through which the rays pass will turn black, 
whilst that under the paper will remain white. You must 
observe not to shake the bottle during the time of the ope- 
ration." Dr. Hooper's Rational Becreations before ITTf). 
which show Photography not to be of so recent invention a.< 
that which is claimed for it by artists of the present day. 
Of course jars for druggists, or other purposes, &c. &c. 
can be lettered by this plan; cutting flourishes, ornaments, 
&e. around the name as desired, having sua f»r a limtwv. 



MISCELLANEOUS; 7^ 

whose skill in giving perfect representations of nature can; 
never be out-done by mortal artists. 

Brilliant Stucco Whitewash. — ^lany have heard of the 
brilliant stucco wlutewash on the east end of the President's 
house at Washington. The following is a recipe for it, a« 
gleaned from the National Intelligencer ^yfith. some addition- 
al improvements learned by exjDeriments. 

Take half a bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack it with 
boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the 
steam. St^'ain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, 
and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in 
water ; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, 
and stirred in boiling hot ; half a pound of Spanish whiting, 
and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dis- 
solved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow 
iiro. in a small kettle, immersed in a larger one filled with, 
water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir 
it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt. 

It should be put on right hot ;. for this purpose it can b(V 
kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. It is said that about 
a pint "bf this mixture will cover a square yard upon the 
outside of a house, if properh^ applied. Brushes more or 
less small ma}^ be used according to neatness of the job re~ 
quired. It answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick, or 
stone, and is much cheaper. It retains its brilliancy many 
years. There is nothing of the kind that will compare witlx 
it, either for inside or outside walls. 

Coloring matter may be put in and made of any sluido 
you like; Spanish brown stirred iu will make red pink,, 
more or less deej) according to quantity. A delicate tinge 
of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized 
conmion clay, well mixed with Spanisli brown makes red- 
dish stone color. Yellow ochre stirred in makes yellow 
wash, but chrome goes further and makes a color generally 
esteemed prettier. In all these eases the darkness of the 
shades of course is determined by the quantity of coloring 
used. It is difficult to make rulos because tastes are differ- 
ent : it would be best to try experiments on a shingle and 
let it dry. We have been told that green must not be mix- 
ed with lime. The lime destrovs the color, and the color 



T4 MISOBLLANBOTJS. 

has an effect on the whitewash, which makes it crack and 
peel. When walls have been badly smoked und you wish 
to have them a clean clear white, it is well to squeeze indi- 
go plentifully through a bag into the water you use, before 
it is stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger quantity than 
five gallons be wanted, the same proportions should be ob- 
served. Or one of the following may be preferred. 

To male Paint without Lead or Oil. — Two quarts skimmed 
milk ; two ounces fresh slacked lime ; five pounds whiting. 
Put the lime into a stone-ware vessel, pour upon it a suffi- 
cient quantity of milk to make a mixture resembling cream; 
the balance of the milk is then to be added ; and lastly the 
whiting is then to be crumbled and spread upon the surface 
of the fiuid, in which it gradually sinks. At this period it 
must be well stirred in, or ground as you would other paint, 
and it is fit for use. There may be added any coloring mat- 
ter tliat suits the fancy — to be applied in the same manner 
as other paints, and in a few hours it will become perfectly 
dry. Another coat may then be added and so on until the 
work is done. 

This paint is of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a* coarse 
cloth, has little smell, even when wet, and when dry is ino- 
dorous. 

The above quantity is sufficient for 57 yards. — Annapolis 
RepiMican. 

'' "We endorse the recipe. The casein or curd of the milk 
by the action of tlie caustic lime, becomes insoluble, and has 
been used for time immemorial as a lute for chemical expe- 
riments. It is a good, and in comparison with white lead, 
a durable paint." — Moore'' s New- Yorker. 

A JSfew JFaj/ of Manufacturing Paint. — The following was 
communicated by a man who was formerly a carpenter in 
tlie U. S. Navy : 

'- During a cruise in the South Pacific, we went into the 
harbor of Coquimbo, and as the ship had been out a long 
time, she was covered with rust from stem to stern. It 
was the anxious wish of the commander that she should 
be restored to her original colors, but, on examining the 
store-room, 'twas ascertained that there was not a pound of 
white lead in the ship : in this emergency, I bethought me 



MIBCKLLANBOUa. 75 

of an expedient which concocted an admirable substitute, 
composed of the following ingredients : Air-slacked lime^ 
pulverized until it was of the consistency of flour, which 
was then passed through a sieve. Rice boiled in a large 
kettle until the substance was drawn entirely out of the 
grain ; the water then of a plastic nature, was strained to 
separate the grain, &c. frpm the clear liquid. A tub, about 
the size of a half barrel, of the prepared lime and rice-wa- 
ter was mixed with a gallon of linseed oil, and the material 
had so much the appearance of paint that a novice could 
not have told the difference. 

" The ship was painted outside and inboard with the 
above mixture (which cost next to nothing) and never pre- 
sented a finer white streak on her bends or cleaner bulwarks 
and berth-deck than on that occasion, and no other kind of 
white paint was used during the remainder of the cruise." 

If this is good for ships out and inboard, it is worth try- 
ing for fences and out-work requiring paint. Or it may bo 
preferable to try the following plan, which I adopted upon 
my own front fence. 

To reduce Oil Paint with water. — Take gum shellac, 1 lb.; 
sal soda, 1-2 lb.; water, 3 pts.; put all into a suitable kettle on 
i.he fire, and boil, stirring till all is dissolved ; if it does not 
all dissolve add a little more sal soda ; this when cool can 
be bottled for use. If it smells bad when opened it docs not 
hurt it. Directions — Mix 2 qts. of oil paint, (except there 
is to be no turpentine used,) any color desired. I used a 
little white lead with yellow ochre and lampblack to make 
a dark shade. Now put 1 pt. of the gum shellac mixture 
with the oil paint when it becomes thick and may be redu- 
ced with water to a proper consistence to lay on with a 
brush. Two coats will be required, and with the second 
coat we sanded the fence, and it is now solid like sand stone. 
The work has been done however only a few months. 

The sand was applied by means of a tube-like box, with 
many small holes to allow the even spreading of the sand, 
as with a pepper box. I do not regret using this kind of 
paint, nor the sanding, as it adds much to the durability of 
any out-door painting. 



76 MISCELLANEOUS. 

I>rymg Oil equal to tlw Patent Driers for Paintm'S^for on&^ 
fourth the price. — Take two gallons of linseed oil, and put 
into it, litlirage, red lead and umber, each, 4 oz.; sulphate 
of zinc, 2 oz.; and sugar of lead, 2 oz. Boil until it will 
scorch a feather. Use this in quantity to suit the object of 
the work being done. No driers, even Patent, or any other 
preparation will be found superior to this, and every Paint- 
er will understand the quantity proper to be used. 

Seven Rules to Detect Counterfeit Money. — 1st — Examine 
the form and features of all human figures on the notes. If 
the forms are graceful and features distinct, examine the 
drapery — see if the folds lie natural ; and the hair of the 
head should be observed, and see if the fine strands can be 
seen. 

2d — Examine the lettering, the title of the bank, or the 
round hand Avriting on the face of the note. On all gen- 
uine bills, the work is done with great skill and perfectness, 
and there has never been a counterfeit but was defective in 
the lettering. 

od — The imprint, or engravers' name. By observing the 
great perfection of the different company names — in the 
evenness and shape of the fine letters, counterfeiters never 
get the imprint perfect. This rule alone, if strictly observ- 
ed, will detect every counterfeit note in existence. 

4th — The shading in the back ground of the vignette, or 
over or around the letters forming the name of the bank, on 
a good bill is even and ])erfect, on a counterfeit irregular 
:i]id imperfect. 

r)tli — Examine well the figures on the other parts of the 
note, containing tlie denomination, also letters. Examine 
well the die work arouud the figures which stand for the 
denomination, to see if it is of the same character as that 
which forms the ornamental work surrounding it. 

6th — Never take a bill that is deficient in any of the 
above points, and if 3'our impression is bad when you first 
i;ee it, you had better be careful how you become convinced 
to change your mind — whether your opinion is not altered 
i\A you become confused in looking into the texture of the 
workmanship of the bill. 

TtJi— Examine tlie name of the State, name of the bank, 



MISCELLANEOUS. 77 

and name of the town where it is located. If it has been 
altered from a broken bank, the defects can plainly be &een, 
'ds the alteration will show that it has been stamped on. 

JYew and Abridged Method of Computing Interest hy om 
simple MuUijjIication. — Rule — To find the interest on any 
a;iven sum of money for any number of years, months or 
days. Keduce the years to months, add in the months if 
any, take one-third of the days and set to the right of the 
months, in decimal form, multiply this result by one half 
the principal and you have the interest required. 

Example. — The interest required on Sl,400 for 2 years, 
S months and 9 days : 

Interest on $1,400 for 2 years, 3 months and 9 days 
27.3 
700 • 



Answer required, $191,10,0 

The above example at 6 per cent. Rule to obtain the 
interest at any other rate. For 7 per cent, increase the in- 
terest at 6 per cent, by 1-6, for 8 per cent, by 1-3, for 9 per 
cent, by 1-2, for 10 per cent, by 2-3, for 11 per cent.^ by 
5-6, for 12 per cent, multiply by 2. 12 per cent, is the high- 
est rate of interest allowed in any State, except Minnesota. 

In pointing off, persons will observe to point off" as many 
places in the product or answer, as there are decimal points 
in the multiplicand, and two places for cents. This ruk- 
has been universally adopted by all business men who have 
availed themselves of it, and pronounced by them to be the 
fJwrfest, and at the same time the simplest rule in use.^ Any 
school boy with a knowledge of multiplication, can in two 
liours time, become thorough master of the rule in all its 
forms and applications. 

Varnish to Prevent Ricsi on Iron or Steel — Take tallow 2 
oz.; rosin, 1 oz.; and melt together, strain wdiile hot to get 
rid of specks which are in the rosin, apply with a brush a 
plight coat, and you can lay away any articles not in con- 
stant use, for any length of time. Mechanics having tools 
exposed to rain or weather will find it to keep tools as brigfet 
as new. 



78 MISCELLANBOUS. 

To Preserve Butter any leitgth of thne. First — work out 
all the buttermilk. Second — use rock salt. Third — pack 
in air-tight jars or cans. Fourth — keep in a cool place, and 
you will have nice butter for years, if desired to keep bo 
long. A short recipe, but it makes long butter. 

Magic Paper used to talce off Leaves^ Figures^ Sfc., in Mm- 
broidery. — Take lard oil, or sweet oil, mixed to the consist- 
ence of cream, with either of the following paints, the color 
of which is desired : Prussian blue, lampi)lack, Venetian 
red, or crome green, either of which should be rubbed with 
a knife on a plute or stone until smooth. Use rather thin 
but firm paper ; put on with a sponge and wipe off as dry 
as convenient ; then lay them between uncolored paper, or 
between newspaper, and press by laying books or some other 
Hat substance upon them, until the surplus oil is absorbed, 
when it is ready to use. Directions — For taking off patterns 
of embroidery, place a piece of thin paper over the embroi- 
dery to prevent soiling ; then lay on the magic paper, and 
then put on the cloth you wish to take the copy on to em- 
broider; pin fast, and then rub over with a spoon bai^dle, 
and every part of the raised figure will show upon the plain 
cloth. To take impressions oif leaves on paper, place the 
leaf between two sheets cf this paper and rub over it hard, 
then take the leaf out and place it between two sheets of 
white paper; rub again, and you will have a beautiful im- 
pression of the leaf or flower, &c., &c. Persons traveling 
without pen or ink, can write with a sharp stick, placimg a 
eheet of this paper, under a sheet of white paper. En- 
gravings can bo copied, by placing the engraving for the top 
sheet and tracing the lines with any pointed instrument. 

Writing on Iron^ Steel, Silver or Gold. — Take 1-2 oz. of 
nitric acid; 1 oz. of muriatic acid. Mix, and shake well 
together, when it is ready for use. Cover the place you 
wish to mark with melted beeswax; when cold write (with 
lifile point or an instrument made for the purpose,) the name 
j>lain, carrying it through the wax and cle:ining the wax all 
out of the letter; then apply the mixed acids with a feather, 
carefully filling each letter; let it remain from one to ten 
lainutes, according to tlie appearance desired ; then put on 
some water, which dilutes the acids and stops the procesSb 



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Weldmg Caststeel without Borax. — Take copperas 2 ozs. ; 
saltpetre 1 oz.; common salt 6 ozs., all pulverized fine, and 
mixed with 3 lbs. nice welding sand, and use it the same as 
you would sand. Higher tempered steel can be used with 
this better than with borax, as it welds with a lower heat — 
such as pitchfork tines, toe-corks, &c. The pieces should 
bo held too-ether while heatinor. 

Root Beer. — For each gallon of water to be used, put in 1 
pt. of bran ; a small handful of hops ; burdock, yellow dock, 
dandelion and spikenard root if you can get it, of each an 
oz., of the green rootb^, bruised, boil about 20 minutes and 
strain, while hot add about 8 or 10 drops of oils of spruce 
and sassafras mixed in equal proportions; when cool enough 
not to scald your hand, put in 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls of 
yeast. If bottled directly it will keep a long time, if allow- 
ed to work an hour or two, then bottled, it will be ready to 
use sooner. Keep these proportions for as many gallons as 
you wish to make ; — and I think that 1-2 lb. of white su- 
gar to the gallon does not injure the medical properties, 
but adds much to its palatableness. You can use a little 
more of the roots if desired, and miglit add any other root 
known to possess medicinal properties desired in the beer. 
This is a nice )S'ay to take alteratives. 

Fmishing Furniture with only one coat of Varnish., not 
using Glue., Paste, or ShellacL — Take raw linseed oil and 
give the furniture a coat with a brush; then immediately 
sprinkle dry whiting upon it and rub it in well with your 
hand, and so on over all the surface — the whiting absorbs 
the oil and the pores of the wood are thus filled with a per- 
fect coat of putty, which will last for ages, and water will 
not spot it nor have any effect upon it. If black walnut is 
the lumber to be finished, you will put a trifle of burned 
umber in the whiting, ^f for cherry, a little Venetian red ; 
beach or maple will require less red, only sufficient is to be 
used in either case to make the whiting have the color of 
the wood being finished. Bedstead posts, banisters or stand- 
ards for bedsteads and all other turned articles can have the 
finish put on in a lathe in double quick time, spreading a 
newspaper on the lathe to save the scattering whiting, ap- 
plying it with the hand or hands ; having an old cloth to 



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rub off the loose whiting which does not enter the pores of 
the wood, the same with smooth surfaces also. 

Thin preparation is cheap, and it is a wonder that furniture 
men have not thought of it before ; three coats of varnish 
without it, is not equal to one with it. For ver}' fine jobs, 
a coat of Eng. isinglass dissolved in alcohol may be used in- 
stead of the above. 

To Re-cut old Files and Easps hy a Chemical Process. — Dis- 
solve 4 ozs. of saleratus in 1 qt. of water, and boil the files 
in it for half an hour; then remove, wash and dry them. — 
Now have ready, in some glass or stone- ware vessel, 1 qt. 
of rain water into which you have slowly added 4 ozs. of 
best sulphuric acid, and keep these proportions for any 
amount used, and immerse the files in this preparation and 
let them remain from 6 to 12 hours, according to the fine- 
ness or coarseness of the file, then remove them, wash clean, 
and dry quickly, and put a little sweet oil upon them to 
cover the surface. 

This plan is applicable to blacksmiths, gunsmiths, tin- 
ners, coppersmiths, machinists, &c. &c. Copper and tin 
T/orkers will only require a short time to take those articles 
out of their files as these soft metals are soon dissolved, 
leaving their files about as good as new. ]^or blacksmiths 
it will require the full time. 

Files may be re-cut 3 times, making in all more wear 
than it took to wear out the file at first. 

Prof. Piatt of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 
spent considerable money and six months' time experiment- 
ing upon this plan, or recipe, and said he never parted with 
it for less than $5, and never would. 

The preparation can be kept and used as long as you sec 
action take place upon putting the files into it. Keep it 
covered when not iu use. Ten cents' or less will buy this 
quantity of acid. 

To Rmi'W tlic Color of Soiled or Faded Goods. — To 1 qt. of 
alcohol, add extract of logwood 1-4 lb ; loaf sugar 2 ozs. ; 
blue vitriol 1-4 oz. ; heat gently until all are dissolved; bot- 
tle for use. Directions — To 1 pt. of boiling water put 3 or 
4 tea-spoonfuls of the logwood mixture, and apply it to the 
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tnrough, l6t dry, and Tbirush well with the nap to give the 
polish. This may be applied to all silks and woolen goods 
liaving colors, hut is most applicable to gentlemens' apparel. 
This is also Prof. Platts' invention and one out of which he 
is making much money. 

Mrs. Chme\s Buckwheat Short Cake. — Take ,3 or 4 tea- 
cups of sour milk, one tea-spoonful of soda saleratus, dissol- 
ved in the milk, with a little salt, mix up a thin dough with 
buckwheat flour, though rather thicker than you would mix 
the same for griddle cakes, say to the consistence of soft 
cake, put into a buttered tin, and put directly into the stove 
oven and bake about 30 minutes, or as you would a short 
cake from common flour. It takes the place of the griddle 
cake, also of the short cake in every sense of the word, nice 
with meat, butter, honey, molasses, &c. No shortning is 
used, and no need of setting your dish of batter over night 
for a Drunken Husband to set his foot in. Wet the top a 
little and warm it up at next meal if any is left, 'tis just as 
good as when first vtiade, while griddle cakes have to be 
thrown away. 

Was the beauty of this cake known to the majority of 
persons through the country generally, buck-wheat would 
become as staple an article of commerce as the common 
wheat. Do not fail to give it a trial and 'also the lemon pie. 

Lemon Fie, the nicest ever ?nade. — Grate ofi" what rind you 
can from 1 lemon, then squeeze out the juice and chop up 
the balance very fine — put all together and add 1 tea- cup 
of water, 1 cup of sugar, two table-spoonfuls of flour, and 
work into a smooth paste ; beat the yolks of four, and the 
whites of two eggs together, and mix with the paste, and 
bake with only one crust, — while these are baking, beat the 
whites of the two eggs saved for that purpose, to a stiff 
froth and add to it two table-spoonfuls of pulverized white 
sugar, and when the pies are done, spread this frosting 
equally over them, and set again in the oven and brown 
slightly. One good sized lemon makes two of the nicest 
pies I ever eat. 

Appk Pies icorth eating. — Instead of mixing up your crust 
with water as is customary for apple pies, mix it up every 
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way just as you -would for biscuit, roll out rather tliiu, iaj 
it upon your tin, or plate, and having ripe apples sliced or 
chopped nicely and laid on rather thick, to correspond with 
the thickness ot the crust when it becomes light, and sugar 
according to the acidity of the apples, then a top crust of 
the same and bake well and you have got a pie that is fit to 
eat, but where you make the crust with water and cook the 
apples and put them on, it soaks the crust, which does noii 
bake, and no stomach can digest it : — whilst our way gives- 
you a nice light crust and does not take half the shortning 
of the water plan, yet perhaps nothing is saved pecuniarily 
as butter goes as finely with the biscuit crust pies as it does 
with biscuit, only the pie is digestible. 

Fishei'h Freynium BoMng Powder. — Take alum", 1-2 oz.: 
salt peter, 1-2 oz.; tartaric acid, 2 oz.; cream of tartar, 1 
oz.; super carbonate of soda, 3 oz.; common flour, 6 oz.; 
pulverize each article very fine, and the acid and soda would 
be the better if dried on a piece of paper in the stove oven, 
then mix all intimately together in a mortar or large bowl 
rubbing with the pestle for some time so they are evenly 
mixed. 

Directions for using — To each quart of flour put 3 round 
ing tea-spoonfuls of the powder, and mix evenly and tho- 
roughl}^ with the flour, sifting and rubbing is the best way 
to mix them, and wet up rather soft with cold water, using- 
salt as desired for the bread, only knead slightly and bake 
immediately. 

This powder must be kept perfectly dry or it spoils, for 
acid and soda if mixed where there is dampness neutralize 
each other. Much money is made on the sale of baking 
powders. Perhaps some would not choose to use them 
when knowing their composition ; each one must judge for 
themselves. We use it and like it, but those preferring the 
soda or saleratus can use it. It took a premium at the 
Ohio State Fair in 1853, at Dayton. J. W. Fisher, a ho- 
Irr, now of Milford, O. is the inventor. 

He sells it as " The Housewife's quick yeast ; or, Baking 
powder, and calls it a highl}- important improvement on the 
nutritious quality, over all other yeasts, leaven, or powders 
i» use, for the purpose of raising bread, cakes, pastry. &c.'^ 



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we have only tried it with bread as yet, rather preferring 
the old way for cakes, pies, &c. 

New French Method of mahing Bread. — Take nice rice, 3-4 
lb.; tie it up in a thick linen bag giving ample room for it 
to swell, boil it from 3 to 4 hours or until it becomes a per- 
fect paste, mix this while warm with 7 lbs. of flour, adding 
the usual quantities of yeast and salt; allow the dough to 
work a proper time near the fire, then divide into loaves. 
.Dust them in, and knead vigorously. This quantity of flour 
and rice makes about 13 1-2 lb of bread which will keep moist 
much longer than without the rice. It was tested at the 
London Polytechnic Institute after having been made public 
in France, with the above results. 

Excellent Cracler$.—V\x\. a tea-cupful of butter and a tea- 
spoonful of salt in 2 qts. of flour ; mix with cold water ; beat 
them well, adding flour until quite brittle ; then roll as pie 
crust, cut out, and bake in a hot oven ; they answer admi- 
rably for table use, oysters, soups, &c. If for invalids, use 
but little butter. 

Ginger C«Xu-~Take 2 cups of nice molasses, 1 1-2 cups 
of butter, or half lard, or all lard if you choose, 2 cups of 
sour milk, or water, (of course milk is best,) 1 tea-spoonful 
of nicely ground ginger, and one heaping tea-spoonful of 
saleratus ; mash the saleratns, then mix all these ingredi- 
ents together in a suitable pan, incorporating well, then stir 
in flour as long as you can with a spoon, then take the hand 
and work in more, just so you can roll them by using flour 
dusting pretty freely, roll out thin, cut and lay upon your 
buttered or floured tiu, then mix 1 spoonful of molasses and 
2 of water, and with a small brush or bit of cloth wet over 
the top of the cakes, this removes the dry flour, causes the 
cake to take a nice brown and keeps them moist, put into a 
quick oven, and 10 minutes will bake them if the oven is 
sufiiciently hot. Do not dry them all up, but take out as 
soon as nicely browned. 

We have sold cakes out of the grocery for years, but nev- 
er found any to give as good satisfaction as these, either at 
table or counter. They keep moist and sufficiently rich and 
light for all cake eaters. 



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Bed-room Carpets for 12 1-2 cts.per yard. — Sew togetlie/ 
the cheapest cotton cloth, the size of the room, and tack the 
edges to the floor. Now paper the cloth as you would the 
sides of a room, with cheap room paper, putting a border 
around the edge if desired. The paste will be the better if 
a little gum arabic is mixed with it. When thoroughly dry, 
give it two coats of furniture or carriage varnish, and when 
dry it is done. It can be washed and looks well in propor- 
tion to the quality and figure of the paper used. It could 
not be expected to stand the wear of a kitchen for any 
length of time, but for bed rooms it is well adapted. 

Milh Faint — " Mix water lime with skim milk, to a pro- 
per coDsistence to apply with a brush, and it is ready to use. 
It will adhere well to wood, whether smooth or rough^ to 
brick, mortar, or stone where oil has not been used, (in 
which case it cleaves to some extent,) and forms a very- 
hard substance, as durable as the best oil paint. It is too 
cheap to estimate, and any one can put it on who can use a 
brush." — Country Gentleman. 

Any color may be given to it by using dry colors of the 
tinge desired. 

Door Fhtes. — Cut your glass the right size, and make it 
perfectly clean, then cut a strip of tin foil sufficiently long 
and wide for the name, and with a piece of ivory or other 
burnisher rub it lengthwise to make it smooth, now wet the 
glass with the tongue, and lay on the foil, rubbing it down 
to the glass with a bit of cloth, then also v/ith the burnisherj 
the more it is burnished the better will it look ; now mark 
the width on the foil which is to be the height of the letter, 
and put on a straight edge and hold it firmly to the foil, 
and with a sharp knife cut the foil and take off the superflu- 
ous edges, then either lay out the letters on the back of the 
foil, (so they shall read correctly on ihe front,) by your 
own judgment or by means of pattern letters which can be 
purchased for that purpose ; cut with the knife, carefully 
holding down the pattern or straight edge, whichever you 
use, then rub down the edge of all the letters with the back 
of the knife, or edge of the burnisher, which prevents the 
black paint or japan, which you next put over the back of 
;he plate, having put a line above and one below the numQ 



MISCELLANEOUS. 85 

cr a border around the whole plate or not, as you bargain 
for the job. The japan is made by dissolving asphaltum in 
just enough alcohol to cut it, and apply with a brush, as 
other paint. This is used on the iron frame of the plate 
also, putting it on when the plate is a little hot, and as soon 
as it cools it is dry. 

If you choose you can remove every other foil letter af- 
ter the japan is dry and paint in its place, red, blue or oth- 
er colored letters, to make a greater variety out of which 
for 3'our eustom<irs to choose as the one they desire you to 
follow in getting up their plate. Tin foil being thicker than 
silver or gold foil, will not show the paint through it in lit- 
tle spots as they do, but if these foils are desired to be used, 
you can put on two thicknesses by proceeding as follows, 
which prevents the paint from showing through them. Lay 
on the first coat of these foils the same as you do the tin, 
and smooth it down, by rubbing on the front of the glass, 
then breathe on it until a dampness is caused, then put on 
the second and burnish well, with a paper over it, but instead 
of the knife to cut around your pattern or straight edge you 
take a sharp needle and with the point make lines through 
the leaf around the letter or along the border, then with a 
bit of Jewellers wood or other hard wood made to rather a 
narrow and sharp point remove all up to the lines, both in 
and around the letters, as these foils have not the substance 
to peal off as the tin foil will ; japan over these the same as 
the other letters- Paper letters can be put on by wetting the 
glass the same as for the foil, japaning over them, and when 
dry removing them and painting the place out of which they 
came with one or various colors as desired, as the japan 
will not peel but makes a sharp and distinct edge and these 
painted letters look well in this way. 

Set your glass in the frame with putty, and put a thin 
ooat of putty over the whole plate, as the plaster of Paris 
filling which is generally used soon eats out the japan or 
paint and spoils the whole job. Persons with any ingenuity 
can very soon make a nice plate if they will pay attention 
to the above rules as well as to pay S5 for instructions, as a 
little practice must be had to become perfect even if you do 
pay $5 for an hour or two's telling and showing. 

Oriental or Crystal Fainting. — The colors used are Prue- 



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aian blue, crimson lake, white lake, yellow lake, RosseaD, 
and No. 40 carmine ; these colors are kept by druggists in 
little tin foil packages. The paints are mixed with demar 
varnish. To make purple, mix Prussian blue and crimson 
lake : — to make green, mix yellow lake and Prussian blue ; 
— to make pink, mix crimson and white lake ; — to make 
black ground which corers all the glass except the figure, 
use the japan with a little lampblack; — to make white 
ground, use white lead or white zinc. 

Make your glass perfectly clean and place it over the de- 
sign or picture you wish to paint, and with these colors, 
trace by means of a small pencil the outlines of the figure, 
then fill in to represent the same as the design, and put on 
the black or white ground whichever is required, and when 
ail is dry have tin foil crumpled very much in your hand 
and then partly straightened out, and lay i^ over the figure 
and keep it in its place by pasting paper over it in such a 
manner as it cannot slip away, letting the paper cover the 
whole back of the glass and all is complete, and will look 
well or ill according to the practice and taste of the painter. 

To prevent tJie Deposit of Lime in Steam Boilers. — Put into 
your cistern or tank, from which the boiler is fed, a sufficient 
amount of tan bark in the piece to color the water rather 
dark, run for 4 weeks and renew. If jou have neither cis- 
tern or tank, use fine ground bark^ such as tanners use, in 
the boilers, from 1-2 to 1 bushel every time you blow off. 
After the first time half the amount will do. 

This recipe I have no personal knowledge of as yet, only 
that I obtained it of a man at Washington, 0. who paid $5 
for it, and has sold it for that amount also, in the neighbor- 
hood and told me that the man of whom he purchased it, 
sold it to many around there for large sums, and that he 
had seen two of them who were perfectly pleased with it. 
This I learned late in the evening, and left the same night 
also, so I had no chance to get any farther knowledge on 
the subJ9ct. I should try it if I was running a boiler in 
lime sections, but have my doubts about putting it into the 
toiler. 

Owe for Heaves. — Take balsam of fir and balsam of copai- 
ba, 4 ozs. each, and mix with calcined magnesia, sufficiently 



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thick to make it into balls, and give a middling sized ball 
night and morning for a week or ten days. This gives good 
satisfaction and is extensively sold by Eberbach & Co. 
•druggists, of this city. 

Mahogamj Stain on Wahmt. — Take aquafortis and apply 
to the walnut to be finished, by means of a rag tacked on to 
a stick, for if you use a brush, it will very soon destroy it. 
Set the furniture in the hot sun to heat in the aquafortis, if 
no sun, heat it in by a stove or fire, that is, it is finer to do 
this, but does quite well even without heating. Finish up 
in every other way as usual. 

This finish is applicable to fancy tables, stands, lounges, 
"Coffins, &c. and equally beautiful on knots and crotches, giv- 
ing walnut the actual appearance of mahogany, and as it is 
appearances only that most people depend upon, why will 
not this do as well as to transport timber from beyond the 
seas. 

Rose-wood Slain en any Timher. — Take equal parts of log- 
wood and redwood chips and boil well in just sufficient wa- 
ter to make a strong stain, and apply it to the furniture 
while hot, 1 or 2 or even 3 coats may be put on, one direct- 
ly after the other, according to the depth of color desired. 
This part makes the bright streaks or grains, and now for 
the dark grains. Take saleratus water and apply over the 
other, by means of a comb made for graining, or a comb 
■made from thinnish India rubber ; the teeth should be ra- 
ther good length-^ say, half an inch, and cut close together 
or further apart as desired, and with a little practice excel- 
lent imitation will be made. If you wish a darker line, use 
iron shavings or chippings in vinegar in the same v>'ay as the 
saleratus water, or if you wish to make the whole surface 
dark, spread them on with a brush over the logwood and 
redwood ground, and if you want to make the cringles, as 
sometimes seen in rosewood, it is done with a single tooth, 
bearing on sometimes hard and then light, &c. &c. All can 
and must be got by practice. 



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PAINTER'S ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS: 

For Fmss-ian Blue. — -1st. Take nitric acid, any quantity., 
and as much iron in shavings as the acid will dissolve ; heat 
the iron as hot as can be handled with the hand, then add 
it to the acid in small quantities as long as the acid will 
dissolve it, then slowly add double the quantity of soft wa- 
ter that there is acid. 2d. Take Prusiate of potash, dis- 
solve it in hot water to make a strong solution, and mix 
sufficient of it with the fir&t to give the depth of tint desired 
and the blue is made. 

For Chrome Yellow. — 1st. Take Sugar of Lead and Paris^ 
"White, equal quantities, and in any quantity ;. dissolve them 
in hot water. 2d. Take bi-chromate of potash, dissolve it 
in hot water, to make a strong solution ; mix the two solur 
lutions, as in the blue, and the Yellow is made. 

For Chrome Green. — Take Prussian Blue and Chrome 
Yellow in a liquid form, mix the two liquids and the Green 
is made. 

For a cheap and durable Green, take Spruce Yellow and 
color it with a solution of Chrome Yellow and Prussian 
Blue until you give it the shade you wish. 

For Fea Frown. — 1st. Take Sulphate of Copper, any 
quantity, dissolve it in hot water. 2d. Take Prusiate of 
Potash, dissolve it in hot watar to make a strong solution^ 
mix of the two solutions, as in the blue, and the color is 
made. 

For Paris Green.— T2i\e unslacked lime of the best qual- 
ity, slack it with hot water ; then take the finest part of the 
powder and add alum water as strong as can be made, suffi- 
cient to form a thick paste, then color it with bi-chromate 
of potash and sulphate of copper until the color suits your 
fancy, and dry it for use. N. B. The sulphate of copper 
gives the color a blue tinge. The bi-chromate of potash a 
yellow. Observe this and you. will never fail. . 

The Prusiate, Chromate, &c. of iron is precipitated,, and 
all that is required, is to drain off the water by putting the 
preparations into woolen, bags, and, Let the watec drain off. 



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and then dry the colors for use. Glass or stone vessels 
must be used with the acids, and always observe that when 
water is mixed with the strong acids, they must be mised 
slowly or you will break the vessel by mean& of the great 
heat which is set free by the combination. Painters can use 
their own judgment about making these colors. But if they 
do not do it for profit there will be pleasure in testing them, 
even in vials full only, as the chemical action is just as fine 
in small as in large quantities. 

Boiling down Paint Shins. — To a gallon of rain water add 
1-2 lb. sal sada, cover the skins, let them stay a day or so, 
heat them up, add oil enough to thin them. Strain them. 



TINNERS' ECONOMT, 

C'rystalizing Tin. — Moisten the Tin with soft water and 
sprinkle sulphuric acid over it. Hold over a charcoal fire 
for a few minutes, and then cleanse it off with salt water. 

Blach Japan. — Asphaltum 1 3-4 lbs.; Turpentine 1-2 gal- 
lon. Melt the Asphaltum in the turpentine, by moderate 
heat on coals : and when half cold, add 1-2 pint copal var- 
nish. Apply with camels hair brush.. One coat for rose- 
wood imitation, and two coats for pure black. 

Red Japan. — One part dragon's blood, 2 parts Chinese 
Vermillion, ground very fine with copal varnish. 

Blue Japan. — One part cobalt or ultramarine blue, two 
parts Prussian blue; ground, very fine with copal varnish. 
One coat makes watered imitation ; two coats pure color. 

Claret Color. — Dragon's blood and asphaltum, equal parts;, 
ground very fine with copal varnish. 

Green. — Asphaltum and Prussian blue, ground fine in go- 
pal varnish.. 



90 SnSCELLANBOUS. 

Percmsion Matches of the best qtcalitt/. — Take chlorate of 
potash, 3-4 lb.; glue, 3 lbs.; white lead, dry, 6 lbs.; red lead, 
1-2 lb.; phosphorus, 2 3-4 lbs. Directions — First put the 
'<jhlorate into a dish made for the purpose, deep, and of a 
suitable size to set into a kettle of water which can be kept 
on the J5re for 2 or 3 days, and put 2 qts. of water on the 
chlorate, then put the glue on top of the chlorate water, and 
let soak until all is perfectly dissolved ; then add the leads 
and heat up quite hot and thoroughly mix^ let cool and add 
the phosphorus, let it dissolve and be careful never to heat 
hot after the phosphorus is added ; stir all the time while 
dipping, and if little particles of phosphorus fires, push it 
down into the mixture, or put on warm water ; if you put 
on cold water, it will fly all over you. Keep it rather thin, 
when and after the phosphorus is put in and there will be 
no danger ; although the chlorate of potash is considered a 
•dangerous article to work with, so is powder, yet when you 
know how to work with them, you can do as safely with 
one as the other. I have been acquainted with a man for 
about 14 years who makes them, and several others for a 
less time without trouble or accident. A better match was 
never made to stand dampness or bear transportation with- 
out setting on fire. I have used and sold them much of the 
time, and speak from knowledge. 

The plan pursued here in preparing the splints is as fol- 
lows : Sawed pine timber from 4 to 8 inches each way, is 
■sawed off the right length for the match, then one end of it 
is shaved off smooth with a drawing knife, the block is held 
upon the horse by a brace from the top of the horse head 
•against the back side of the block, so as to be out of the 
way of the knife instead of putting the block under the jaws 
of the horse head as is usual in common shaving, as the dents 
made in the end of the match timber would not answer, the 
front edge comes against a strip put on for that purpose ; 
then glue the other end and put on brown paper, which holds 
them together when split ; machines are used to split with 
which feeds up the block just enough each time the splitting 
knife is raised, to make the size of the match when split the 
other way, or about ten to the inch. These machines cost 
=4.vDout $bO, and the labor of splitting is simply to turn a 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



91 



■crank, and the work goes ahead like a young saw mill, by 
simply turning a crank as shown in the figui-e A A, showing 
two standards bolted upon a base plank 4 feet in length ; 




these gtaudarcls support a shaft of the same length, with 
crank and balance wheel D which is 2 feet in diameter; the 
shaft has upon it an oval wheel G which sinks the knife F 
twice in each revolution, the knife passing down through a 
space in a thin iron strip H standing out from the '2 blocks 
C C, under which the match block passes by the drawing of 
the chain seen to pass over a small drum P upon the shat^ 
of the rag wheel E, the notches being only 1-4 inch apart, 
.and fed up by the hand 31 attached to the ii'on fi-ame L., 



§2 COLORING DEPARTMENT. 

being kept back to the cam wheel B, which has 2 swells 
upon it, by a light spring which is not shown, the hand M 
is kept down into the cogs or notches by the little spiral 
wire spring K ; the match block to be split sets in the frame 
which carries the block I with a pin in it to draw back the 
frame. When the block of matches is split, this fi-ame goes 
forward to touch a catch, the same as a saw mill, which lets 
another spring not seen, raise the hand M, when the feeding 
operation ceases. The frame is then drawn back and the 
same repeated. As the match is split they open and require 
a rounding mortice made through the base plank between 
the blocks CC, which allows them to remain in a half circu- 
lar form — the knife is raised by a line attached to a spring 
pole T, the knife is screwed upon a piece of cast iron which 
works in the guides H, having the back end firmly fastened 
by a bolt through the standard 0. This knife stands at 
right angles with the shaft. When the matches are split 
and sufiiciently dry to work upon, they are dipped in melted 
brimstone kept hot and the match also kept hot on a sheet 
iron stove and all the brimstone is thrown off which can 
possibly he by jerking the block with the hand. If any 
brimstone remains upon the end it must be scraped off be- 
fore dipping into the match composition. 



GENEPtAL REMAEKS ON COLORING, 



It may be necessary to remark,, and I do it here, once 
for all, that every article to be dyed, as well as every thing 
used about dyeing, should be perfectly clean of filth and 
grease, but particularly such as are used for light colors. 
The copper kettle should be scoured bright, and the stick 
used for lifting the goods, and the tubs used for rinsing; all 
should be kept clean. 

In the next place,, the article to be dyed should, be weli 



COLORlNa DEPARTMENT. D3 

scoured in soap, and then the soap rinsed out, for soap is 
just as inimical to the dye as grease. It is also an advan- 
tage to dip the article you wish to dye into warm water 
just before putting it into the alum or other preparation ; 
for the neglect of this precaution it is nothing uncommon 
to have the goods or yarn spotted. 

As soon as an article is dyed it should be aired a little, 
then well rinsed, and afterward hung up to dry. 

TVhen dyeing or scouring silk or merino dresses, care 
should be taken not to wring them while wet, for this has a 
tendency to wrinkle and break the silk. It will be difficult, 
and sometimes impossible to get these wrinkles out again. 

In putting dresses and shawls out to dry, that have been 
dyed, they should be hung out so as to dry evenly, for the 
part that dries the quickest is frequently the lightest. 

Great confidence may be placed in these coloring recipes 
as the author has had them revised by Mr. Storms of this 
city, who has been in the business over 30 years, and given 
tlie following certificate of their efficiency. 

Ann Arbor, Aug. 6, 1859. 
I have examined and revised Dr. Chase's Coloring Reci- 
pes, and am satisfied that they are practical and good. I 
have also furnished him with some valuable recipes in this 
line. Hiram Storms, 

Dijer and Mamifactuyer. 



COLORS FOR WOOLEN GOODS. 

Chroma BhcJc for Woolen Goods — Superior to any now in 
nse. — Preparation for 5 lbs. of goods, take 6 oz. blue vitriol; 
boil a few minutes, and dip the goods 3-4 of an hour, airing 
them often in the time ; take out the goods, and make a dye 
with 3 lbs. of logwood ; boil 1-2 hour, dip 3-4 of an hour, 
and air the goods and dip 3-4 of an hour more which finish- 
es the goods. Wash in strong suds. 

To DijeBhck on Wool for Mixtures. — For 10 lbs. of goods, 
take 1-4 lb. of the bi-chromate of potash, and 3 oz. of ground 
'drii,(A, boil together and put in the wool ; stir well, and let 



^ COLORING DEPARTMENT. 

it remain in the dye 4 hours. Then take out the wool, rinse 
it slightly in clear water, then make a new dye, into which 
put 3 1-2 lbs. of logwood. Boil 1 hour and then add 1 pt, 
of chamberley ; put in the wool, stir well and let it lie in 
all night. Wash in clear water. 

N. B. — This color I would recommend in all cases in 
preference to any other now in use^ as it will not impart 
anj' of its color in fulling nor fade by exposure to the sun, 
and if either of these blacks are spotted you will treat them 
as directed for black silk (i. e.) by throwing in some ashes 
or making the ley and dipping in it as there directed. 

' 3faking a Darh Steel Mix. — Take 10 lbs. black wool, and 
1 1-2 lbs. white, and mix well together ; great care should 
be taken in mixing the white with the black, as the propor- 
tion of white is so small the mix will not be even, unless 
this is borne in mind. 



For a Dark Smiff Broivn. — For 5 lbs. Cloth or Yarn, 
take 1 lb. of camwood and boil it 15 minutes, then dip the 
goods for 3-4 hour ; take out the goods, then add to the dye 
2 1-2 lbs. of fustic, boil 10 minutes, then dip the goods 3-4 
hour, add 1 oz. of blue vitriol and 4 oz. copperas; dip 1-2 
hour : then if not dark enough, add more copperas. This 
color is dark, beautiful and permanent. 

For Wine Color. — For 5 lbs. goods take 2 lbs. camwood, 
boil 15 minutes and dip the goods 1-2 hour ; boil again and 
dip 1-2 hour ; then darken with 1 1-2 oz. of blue vitriol ; if 
not dark enough, then add copperas 1-2 oz. 

For Madder P^ed. — The following recipe supercedes any 
other in use, both in beauty and in being adapted to all cir- 
cumstances : To each lb. of goods take 5 oz. alum, and 1 oz. 
of red, or cream of tartar ; dissolve in sufficient quantity of 
soft water ; put in the goods and bring your kettle to a boil 
for half an hour, then air them and boil one half hour lon- 
ger ; then empty your kettle and fill with clean water, put 
in 1 peck of bran, make it milk warm and let it stand over 
night or until the bran rises on the top, then skim off the 
bran and put in 1-2 lb. of madder and put in your goods, 
and heat slowly until it boils and is done. Wash in stro^ 
suds. 



COLORING DEPART3IENT,- §5' 

Green on Wool or SilJc. — Put 1 oz. of indigo into an ear- 
then vessel with 5 oz. oil of vitriol, and let it stand 24 
hours. Make a strong yellow dye of yellow oak and hick- 
ory bark in equal cpantities. Add the vitriol and indiojo- 
according to the deepness of the color you wish,, say 1 table- 
spoonful at a time.. 

Scarlet on Woolen Goods ivith CocMneal. — For 1 lb. of yarn 
or cloth take 1-2 oz. of cream of tartar, 1-2 oz. cochineal well 
jDulverized, 2 1-2 oz. of the solution of tin ; then boil up the 
dye and enter the goodS;. work them briskly for 10 or 15 
minutes, after which bring the dye to a boiling heat and boil 
11-2 hours, stirring the goods slowly while boilings wash in 
clear water and dry in the shade. 

To make Tin Liquor or Tin Solutio-n. — If druggists keep it 
it is best to purchase of them already made ; if not, you,, 
will proceed as follows : 

Get at a tinner's shop, 4 oz. of block tin : put it in a sho- 
vel and melt it. After it is melted, pour it from the height 
of 4 or 5 feet, from the shovel into a pail of clean water. — - 
This will make what is called granulated or feathered tin ; 
the object of doing this is to have the tin in small particles, 
so that the acid can dissolve it. Take it out of the water 
and dry it, then put it into a strong glass bottle ; pour over 
it 12 oz. of muriatic acid ; then add by degrees 8 oz. sul- 
phuric acid. The sulphuric acid should be added about a 
table-spoonful at a time, at intervals of 5 or 8 minutes, for 
if you add it too rapidly you run the risk of breaking the 
bottle. x\fter you have all the acid in^ let the bottle stand 
until the ebullition subsides ; then stop it up with a bees- 
wax or glass stopper and set it away, and it will keep good 
for a year or more, or will be fit for use in 24 hours. 

Deep Yellow or Green on 5 Ihs. of Goods. — Boil in clean 
water, half a peck of black oak bark ; after it has boiled 
take out the bark and add half a tea-cupful of tin liquor ; 
stir the dye well, then put in the yarn and stir it round, and 
it vrill dye a deep yellow in from 5 to 15 minutes, accord- 
ing to the strength of the bark ; take out the yarn and rinse 
it immediately and dry it. Add to this dj-e a table-spoon- 
ful of chemic at a time, working the goods for 5 minutes 



^ COLORING KEHPA^RTKENT. 

and air, if not sufficiently dark add more cbemic until the 
green is deep enough to suit. 

For Pink. — For 3 lbs. of goods take 3 oz. of alum, boil 
and dip the goods 1 hour, then add to the dye 4 oz. cream 
of tartar, and 1 oz. of cochineal well pulverized ; boil well 
and dip the goods while boiling, until the color suits. 

Orange en Flannel or any other Woolen Goods. — for 5 lbs. 
goods take 6 table-spoonfuls of the muriate of tin, and 1-4 
of a lb. of argol, boil and dip 1 hour, then add to the dye 
2 1-2 lbs. fustic, boil 10 minutes, and dip 1-2 hour, then 
add to the dye a tea-cupful of madder, dip again 1-2 hour. 

N. B. — Cochineal used in the place of the madder makes 
a much brighter color, which should be added in small 
<|uantities until red enough to make the desired orange, is 
obtained. 

For Lac F.cd. — For 5 lbs. goods take 10 ozs. of argol, boil 
a few minutes, then take 1 lb. of fine ground lac, mix 
with 1 1-4 lbs. of the muriate of tin, let stand 2 or 3 hours, 
then add one half of the lac to the argol, dye and dip 1-2 
hour, then add the balance of the lac and dip again 1 hour; 
keep the dye at a boiling heat until the last half hour, when 
the dye may be cooled off. 

For Furple. — For 5 lbs. of goods take 4 oz. of cream of 
tartar, 6 ozs. alum, 1-2 tea-cupful of muriate of tin, 2 ozs. 
cochineal. Boil the cream of tartar, alum and tin, 15 min- 
utes, then put in the cochineal and boil 5 minutes ; dip the 
goods 2 hours, then make a new dye with 4 oz, alum, 6 oz. 
Brazil wood, 1 tea-cupful tin liquor, 14 oz. logwood and a 
little chemic. 

To maJce Qiemic. — For good Chemic take at the rate of 
1-2 lb. of Oil of Vitriol, and stir into it 2 ozs. of fine ground 
Indigo, stir one half hour, cover over and let stand for 2 or 3 
days, stirring it three or four times each day, that all the 
particles of Indigo may get dissolved ; put the Chemic into 
a glass vessel and cork up tight. This composition will 
keep for a long time, and improves by standing. 

For a L'ujUt Silver or Fearl Frah. — For 5 lbs. goods take 
1 small tea-spoonful of alum, and about the same amount of 



COLORING DEPARTMENT, 97 

logwood, boil well together, then dip the goods 1 hour ; if 
not dark enough add in equal quantities alum and logwood 
until the required color is obtained. 

To Cleanse Wool. — Make a liquor of 3 parts water, and 1 
of urine, heat it as hot as j^ou can bear the hand in it, then 
2)ut in the wool, a little at a time so as not to have it crowd, 
let it remain in for 15 minutes, take it out over a basket to 
drain, then rinse in running -water, and spread it out to dry; 
thus proceed in the same liquor, when it gets reduced fill it 
up ; always keep the liquor as hot as you can bear your 
hand in it, and never use any soap, as it fulls the wool. 

ILow to Extract the Color from Darh Rags or other Goods 
and insert Lighter Colors. — This recipe is calculated for rags 
for carpets ; in the first place let the rags be washed clean. 
The black rags can be colored red or purple at the option 
of the dyer ; to do this take for every 5 lbs. black or brown 
rags, 3-4 lb. muriate of tin, and 1-2 lb. of lac, mixed with 
the same as for lac red ; dip the goods in this dye 2 hours, 
boiling one half of the time, if not red enough add more tin 
and lac. The goods can then be made a purple by adding 
a little logwood : be careful and not get in but a very small 
handful, as more can be added if not enough. White rags 
make a beautiful appearance in a carpet, by tying them in 
the skein and coloring them red, green or purple ; gray rags 
will take a very good green, the color will be in proportion 
to the darkness of mix. In the following recipes I shall 
give directions for coloring cotton, so that cotton rags will 
look equally as well as woolen. 



DURABLE COLORS FOR COTTON GOODS. 

For Black on Cotton. — For 5 lbs. goods take 3 lbs. sumac, 
boil 1-2 hour, let the goods then steep in 12 hours, the 
goods are then to be dipped in a solution of lime water for 
1-2 hour, take out and let stand 1 hour, take 8 oz. copperas 
and add it to the sumac liquor, in this dip the goods 1 hour, 
then run them through the tub of lime water again for 15 
minutes, then make a new dye with 2 1-2 lbs. logwood, boil 
7 — Copyright secured. 



OS COLORING I>ErAllTMENT. 

1 liour, then dip the goods 3 hours, then add to the logwao<3 
dye 2 oz. bi-chromate of potash, dip again, then wasli in 
clear cold water, and dry in the shade. 

N, B. — In using sumac take the wood and bark togther^ 

To Cohr Sb/ Blue on Cotton. — For 3 lbs. goods take 4 
ozs. blue vitriol, boil a few minutes, then dip the goods- 3 
hours, after which pass them through a strong solution of 
lime water ; the lime water is made by putting lime into a 
pail of water and letting it stand until it becomes clear, 
then turn into a tub of water, in which dip the goods ; yoia 
<;an make this color a beautiful brown by putting them 
through a solution of prusiate of potash. 

JjIug on Cotton and Linen icith Logwood. — Preparation for 
cotton and linen : in all cases (if new) they should be boiled 
in a strong soap suds and rinsed clean ; then for 5 lbs. cot- 
ton or 3 lbs. linen, take 3-4 lbs. bi-chromate of potash, put 
in the goods and dip 2 hours, then take out, rinse, make a 
dye with 4 lbs. logwood, dip in tliis 1 hour, air, and let stand 
in the dye 3 or 4 hours, or till the dye is almost cold, wash 
out and dry. 

IW Furple. — For 5 lbs. goods take 3 lbs. logwood, and 
1-2 tea-cupful of nmriate of tin, boil the dye 1-2 hour, cool 
a little and dip the goods 3 or 4 hours, dry in the shade ; 
wash in clear cold water after drying. This will do for 
ribbons not requiring to be washed in suds. 

For Green. — Cotton should, in all cases, be perfectly clean; 
new cotton should be boiled in weak ley or potash and wash- 
ed and dried ; give the cotton a dip in the home made blue 
dye-tub, until blue enough is obtained to make the green as 
dark as required, take out, dry, and then rinse the goods a 
little, then make a dye with 3-4 of a lb. of fustic, and 3 oz. 
logwood, to each lb. of good's, boil 1 hour and let cool until 
at hand heat, put in the cotton, move briskly a few minutes 
and let lay in 1 hour, take out and let it thoroughly drain, 
dissolve for each lb. of cotton 1-2 oz. blue vitriol, dip again 
as before, wring out and lot dry in the shade. By adding 
or dhninishhig the logwood and fustic, any shade of green 
may be obtained. 

For Yellow. — The following recipe for yellow, supercedes 



COLORTNO DEPAr.TMEXT. 90 

any other In use l)oth inl3eaiity mid diirabHity. For 5 ]l)s, 
cotton goods take 7 oz. sugar of lead, make dye enoiio-li to 
thoroughly immerse the goods, dip 2 hours, wring out, dis- 
solve in a separate dye 4 ozs. of bi-chromate of potash, dip 
until the color suits, wring out and dr}^, if not yellow enougJi 
repeat the abo\^e operation. 

For Orange Color. — For 5 lbs. goods take 4 ozs. sugar of 
lead, boil a few minutes and when a little cool put in the 
goods, dip 2 hours, wring out, (not wash) make a new dye 
with 8 oz. bi-chromate of potash, dip until it suits ; if the color 
should be too red take off a small sample and dip it into 
lime water ; when the choice can be taken of tlie sampl^e 
dipped in the lime or the original color. This color is very 
permanent. 

Red. — Take muriate of tin 2-3 of a tea-cupful, add suf- 
ficient water to cover the goods well, bring it to a hoiling 
heat, put in the goods 1 hour, stirring often ; take out the 
goods and empty the kettle and put in clean water ; make 
a dye by steeping 2 lbs. nic wood for half an hour at hand 
heat, then put in the goods and increase the heat for 1 hour, 
not bringing to a boil at all ; air the goods and dip an hour 
as before; wash in clean water only ; — dry. 



COLORS FOR SILK GOODS. 

For u Handsome Green. — For 1 lb. of silk talce 8 ozs. of 
yellow oak bark, and boil 1-2 hour ; turn off the liquor from 
the bark and add 6 ozs. alum, let stand until cold ; while 
this dye is being made, color the goods in the blue dye tub, 
a light blue ; dry and was-h, then dip in the alum and bark 
dye ; if it does not take well, warm the dye a little. If 
you have no blue tub, pursue the following : 

Deep Yellow or Green on five pounds of Sill: or Wool. — 
This is applicable to wool and silk. Boil in clear water 1-2 
a peck of black oak bark, (or peach leaves;) after it has 
boiled take out the bark and add 1-2 a teacupfnl of tin li- 
quor ; stir the dye well, then put in the goods and stir them 



lUO i'OLORlNG DEPAKTMEXT. 

round, and it will dye a deep yellow in from r> to 15 min- 
utes, according to the strength of the bark ; take out the 
goods, rinse and dry immediately. Now, to make a green, 
add to the above dye a table- spoonful of chemic at a time, 
and work the goods 5 minutes, and air ; if not sufficiently 
dark, use the same amount of chemic as before, and work 
again as before, until the green suits your fancy. 

For Mulberry. — Preparation — For 1 lb. of silk take 4 ozs. 
alum, dip one hour, wash out, and make a dye with 1 oz. 
of brazil wood, and 1-4 oz. logwood previously boiled in a 
kettle together ; dip in this 1-2 hour, then add more brazil 
wood, and logwood, in equal proportions until the color is 
dark enough. 

For a Blade on Sill:. — Make a weak dye as you would 
for black on woolens, only not so strong ; work the goods in 
bichromate of potash, at a little below boiling heat, then 
dip in the logwood the same way ; if colored in blue vitriol 
dye, use about the same heat. 

To Remove Spots and Prevent Spotthiff Blach on JFool or 
Silk. — N. B. — In dying silk or other goods if they should 
become rusty or spotted, all that is necessary is to make a 
weak ley and have it scalding hot, and put your goods in for 
15 minutes, or throw some ashes into your dye and run 
your goods in it 5 minutes and they will come out a jet 
black and an even color. I will warrant it. — Storms. 

The reason that spots of brown, or rust as it is called, 
appears on black cloths is that these spots take the color 
faster than the other parts of the goods, and are kept in 
longer than they require ; but I have no doubt Mr. Storms' 
plan to remove them is correct, for he regreted much to 
make public the information, which he says is not generally 
known, and applicable to woolen as well as silk. 

For a Light Chemic Blue. — Take for 1 gal. water 1-2 table- 
spoonful of alum, dissolve in a tea-cup of hot water; turn 
this into the gal. of water, which should be cold, then add 
the chemic, as much as is wanted to obtain the desired col- 
or, — the more chemic that is used the darker will be the 
color. 

For Purple. — Dip the goods in the home made blue dye 



COLORING DEPARTMENT. 



lUl 



tub, until a Ught blue is obtained, dr}^ and then make a d}' 
of 4 ozs. of alum, half to the lb. of silk, then dip when the 
dye is a little warm ; if the color is 
little chemic. 



not full enough add a 



For Yellow. — For 1 lb. of silk take 3 ozs. alum, 1-4 oz. of 
sugar of lead, immerse the goods in the solution of alum 
and lead over night, take out, wring and make a new dye 
with 1 lb. of fustic, dip until the required color is obtained. 
The yellow or green for wool works equally well on silk. 

For Orange. — Take annatto' and soda, and add in equal 
quantities according to the amount of goods and darkness 
of the color wanted. 

For a leautifid Cinnamon or Brown on hoth Cotton and 
Silk, hj a new process. — Give the goods as much color, from 
a solution of blue vitriol as it will take up, then run it 
through lime water ; this will make a beautiful sky blue of 
much durability ; it has now to be run through a solution 
of prussiate of potash,when it will be a beautiful cinnamon 
or brown. 

To Color Crimso7i. — For 1 lb. of silk take 3 ozs. alum, 
dip at hand heat 1 hour, take out, wring them ; for 1 pail- 
ful of new dye take 3 ozs. cochineal, 2 ozs. nutgalls, and 1-4 
oz. cream of tartar, boil 10 minutes, cool a little and dip 1 
hour, raising the dye to a boiling heat at the time ; wash 
and dry. — 

Painter^s Sanding Ap- 
paratus.-ln my recipe for 
reducing oil paint with 
water 1 spoke of sanding 
after painting, & having 
since seen an apparatus 
for that purpose,! give an 
illustration of iv,[t is made 
of tin, the tube C enters 
upon the nczzle ofa small 
bellows made for the pur- 
pose, the sand is put into 
the funnel B which she'd 
have a cover with a hinge, and the funnel on top of the apparatus dis- 
charges the sand just before the end of the bellows nozzle, when by- 
working the bellows the sand is evenly deposited upon the freshly put 
on paint, through the mouth piece A, the escape orifice not being over 
the 16th of an inch in thickness, and may be made 2i or 3 inches wide 




II02 



INDEX. 



French Pfdent Leaiher. — The process which has "been so 
successfully adopted by thc' French artisans in glazing leath- 
er, so as to give it the repute for superior quality and beauty 
which it now universally sustains, is to work into the skin 
with appropriate tools three or four successive coatings of 
drying varnish, made by boiling linseed oil with w^iite lead 
and litharge, in the proportion of one pound of each of the 
latter to a gallon of the former, and adding a portion of 
chalk or ochre — each coating being thoroughly dried before 
the application of the next. Ivory black is then substituted 
for the chalk or ochre, the A'arnish thinned with spirits of 
turpentine, and five additional applications made in the 
same manner as before, except that it is put on thin and not 
worked in. The leather is rubbed down with pomice-stone 
powder, and then placed in a room at 90 degs., put out of 
the -way of dust. The last varnish is prepared by boiling 
1-2 lb. of asphalt with 10 lbs. of the drying oil used in the 
first step of the process, and then stirring in 5 lbs. of copal 
varnish and 10 lbs. turpentine. It must have a month's age 
before it is fit for use, in order to exhibit its true character- 
istics. I put this recipe in upon the authority of the U. S. 
Gazette. 

To Remove Corns In b minutes. — Take alcohol 1-2 oz.; muriatic acid 
1 dr.; nitric acid 1 dr.; chloroforra 1 dr.; mix slowly, and they used to put 
in oil of xosemary 1 dr, but I do not, as it is only for flavor and does not 
<?at; apply a little upon the corn once or twice and in about 3 to 5 min- 
utes, take a knife or lance and separate the corn from the skin immedi- 
ately at the edge of the corn, and then with the knife work around un- 
der the corn, lifting it out from its bed without starting blood or giving 
pain. Then apply a little stimulating liniment for 3 or 4 times in a day 
or two, and no soreness will be experienced. 



INDEX. 



MERCHANTS AND GROCERS DE- 
PARTMENT. 

Vinegars 23 to 27 

To preserve butter 78 

Burning Fluid 28 

To preserve eggs 29 

Honeys, 30, 31 

Jellies 32 
Writing & indel. Inks 32, 33 



82 



Baking powders 

Computing interest 77 

Detect'g counterfeit money 76 

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

Krieder's Ague Pills 34 

Febrifuge wine 34 

Tonic wine tincture 44 

Sweating drops 47 



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Imperial drops for gravel 

Camphor Ice for Gliaj)pcd 
hands or lips 

Eye Water 

Green Mountain Salve 

Black Salve 

Vermifuge lozenges 

Parish's cough lozenges 

Medicated cough candy 

Genuine Seidlitz powders 

Cough syrup 

Whooping-cough syrup 

Liquid Opodeldoc 

Diarrhea cordial 

Cholera tincture 
Vegetable physic 
Magnetic tooth cordial 
Extracting teeth 
Dentifrice for gums & teeth 
Tooth powder 
Esssences and Tinctures 
British Oil 

Good Samaritiin liniment 
Loomis's liniment 
Cod liver oil 
Syrup for consumptives 
Eever sore plaster 
Ointment for old sores 
Salt-rheum ointment 
Cure for Jaundice 
Pile ointment 
Golden tincture 
Inflammatory rheumatism 
Cure for asthma 
Composition powder 
Valuable stimulant in low 

fevers 48 

Alterative syrup 49 

Diuretics 50 

Irritating plaster 50 

Eclectic liver pill 50 



46 

47 
34 
35 
43 
36 
36 
36 
87 
37 
37 

3^ 

38 

38 

39 

39 

39 

70 

70 

40 

41 

41 

42 

43 

43 

43 

43 

45 

45 

45 

46 

4/ 

48 

48 



Remedy for sore throat 51 
Nervous pill 51 

Remedy for croup 5:i 

Cure for hydrophobia and 

rattle-snake bites 53 

Cure for tetter, ring worm 

and barber's itch 54f 

Writing on glass by the 

rays of the sun, for 

lettering jars, &c. 72 

SALOON ic INN-KEEPERS DE- 
PARTMENT. 

Artificial Cider 4 

To keep apple cider sweet 15 
Root beer 
Beers, 



Yeast 

Soda syrups 
Cream soda 
Ginger wine 



i9 

5, 6, 7, 8 

7 

7 

10 

8 

9, 10 

10 

11, 12, 13 

11 



Ice creams 

Lemon syrup 

Wines 

Coloring for wines 

Stomach bitters 14 

Portable lemonade 14 

Persian sherbet 14 

Cider wine 16 

Alcohol in medicines 16 

Brandy, Rum, Gin, 18 to 22 

Berry Cordials 22 



BOOT, SHOE, k. HARNESS MAKERS 
DEPARTMENT. 

Best color for edges 54 

Cheap edge color 54 

Blackings, 55, 56 

Tanning 56, 57 

French patent leather 102 



104 



PAINTERS DEPARTMENT. 

Prepared oil 69 

Paiut without lead or oil 74 
To reduce oil paint with 

water 75 

Drying oil 76 

Economy in making colors 88 
Boiling down paint skins 89 
Crystal painting 85 

Door plates 84 

Milk paint 84 

Sanding apparatus 101 

tinners' department. 
Crystalizing tin 89 

Japaning 89 

blacksmiths' department. 
To re-cut old files , 80 

Varnish to prevent rust 77 
Writing on iron, steel, 

silver or gold 78 

Welding cast steel 79 

farriers' department. 
Cure for cholic in horses 63 
Remedy for bots 63 

King bone and spavin cui'e 64 
Poll-evil and fistula, 65 

Sloan's horse ointment 65 
Condition powders 66 

Nerve & bone liniment 66 
Broken limbs, illustrated 66 
Wound balsam 67 

Cure for Heaves 86 

barbers' department. 
Hair dyes 68, 59 

Hair restorative 59 

Shampooing mixture 60 

Renovating mixtm-e 60 

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To renew color 80 

Cologne Imperial 61 

Family Cologne 62 

Hair oils 62 

Ox marrow pomatmn 62 

CABINET makers' DEPARTMENT 

American cement 71 

Polish for removing stains 70 
Finishing furniture with 

1 coat of varnish 79 

Mahogany stain 87 

Rosewood stain 87 

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 

Washing fluid 68 

Soft soap 69 

Cure warts without pain 69 
Remove warts & corns 47, 102 

Magic paper 78 

Rat exterminator 71 

Art of catching fish 70 

Gold and silver plating 71 
Brilliant stucco whitewash 73 

Percussion matches 90 
To prevent lime deposits 

in steam boilers 86 

Buckwheat short-cake 81 

Lemon and apple pies 81 

Making bread 83 

Excellent crackers 83 

Ginger cake 83 

Bedroom carpet 84 

COLORING DEPARTMENT. 

Woolen goods 93 to 96 

Cotton goods 97 to 99 

Silk goods 99 to 101 

Tin liquor 96 

To extract dark colors 97 
To remove spots 100 



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K E F E K E N E S 



These Kecipes ure got up on purely scientilic and philosophical prin- 
ciples, from long and aniual experience in the Drug and Grocerv 
busisess, and entire satisfaction warranted. 

Eeference is made to the following named gentlemen, who have used 
the recipes referred to, and recommend them to all who wish to make or 
USE the articles spoken of. Eeference could be made to many more, 
as Dc. CHASE has travelled over several States, selling them to bu- 
siness men only, and so far as known, entire satisfaction has been given, 

HowBERT & Failor, Dvuggists, of Bucyrus, Ohio, say : Dr. Chase'.s 
Red Ink is superior to Harrison's Columbian Ink, and also that his 
Burning Fluid can liave no superior. 

J. M. Chase, of Orramvl, N. Y. says. Your Vinegar is all right. 
More than 40 men tasted it last Saturday, and they, to a man, say it is 
the best and pleasantest they ever saw. 

GiBEoit Howell, of Orramel, iN. Y. says : I have drank cider two 
years old, (kept by one of Dr. Ciiase's recipes,) as good as when put up' 
and did not cost 1-4 of a cent per barrel t » prepare it. 

H. W. Lord and J}. Fox., Grocers, of Pontiac, IMich. say : We have, 
kept Eggs two years, by J)r. Chate's process, as good as when put 
down. 

N. S. Reed, Harness Maker, of Mans-lield, Ohio, says: I have used 
Dr. Chase's Varnish Blacking for Harness, over three years, and say 
that it is the best that I ever used. 

The editor of the CGiuUnj Gentleman says of the Yv'ashing Fluid, from 
several years' experience, liiat clothes not only wash easier, but look 
better, and last fully as long as when washed in tiie old way. 

Cronis & Erg. Merchants of ir'eru, ill., say they have used tlie samn 
plan as Dr. Chase's for keeping Egg.s, for 12 years past with entire 
success. 

L. Weber, Grocer, of Crestline, O. says May 2G, '59: I purchased Dr. 
Chase's book about a year aeo and have mads and sold the Vinegak, 
at a profit of about. $40 on nine barrels sold. 

John Miskr, Blacksmith, of VV'ashiugton, Ohio, says : June 25, '59, 
Dr. Chase tried his file cutting pkockss in my shop last night, and 
I am satisfied that it is a good thing and have purchased his book. 



We have been acquainted wiih hr. A. Av'. Chase iur several years in 
the Drug and Grocery business, and are well saiistied that he would not 
do a business which he did not know was all right. His information^ 
in the form of recipes can be depended upon. 

JOHN J. EAGLEY, Tobacconist, Detroit, Michigan. 
SAMUEL J. EEOFIELD, M, D. Wyandotte, Michigan. 
JOHN EOBKliTSON, Captain of Steamer Clifton. 
H. FISH, Captainof Steamer Sam Ward. 
GEORGfc: BEARD, Dealer iu Oy.Uers and Fruit, Detroit. 
AVM. FHFLPS & CO. Confectioners, Detroit. 
All communications should be addressed fo 

A. W. CHASE, 3/, n. Ar.ii Arbor, Michiean. 



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